Plans for Memorial Day '09

Today is Memorial Day. I'm not doing anything special. Actually, today is a pretty craptacular day for holiday festivities. It's about 75 degrees, overcast, rainy, and stormy-- definitely not BBQ weather. Anywho, I'm just continuing with my reading and focusing on the meaning of the day. Speaking of which, there's a whole section in Give Me Liberty about "fake patriotism." Naomi Wolf argues that what has passed for patriotism (i.e. blindly supporting the xenophonic, war-mongering policies of a bad president) for the last eight years isn't. I've gotta say that I concur with her.