Originally Posted by mordwyr

I googled it but didn't find an answer immediately, but I just didn't care enough to dig deeper.


Anyway, today is/was the 4th of July, but all American military bases have cancelled their fireworks and public celebrations because some asshole soldier decided to go and rape a woman in Okinawa a month ago. The Japanese are plenty pissed off, so going ahead with festivities celebrating a country of rapists would be bad form right about now. Wait, what?

So, to celebrate the way I do every year, I forced my university students to sing "Happy Birthday, America".

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.