Walking Backwards

Thrilling experiences from a rather uneventful life.

Sunday, July 31, 2005

I just got back from our little trip less than an hour ago. I thirsty and exhausted so I'm not going to go into great detail about our trip now. It would end up one muddled, convoluted run-in sentence. Instead I am briefly going to speak out against the newest craze here in Texas (and probably elsewhere in the southern United States) of putting magnetic ribbons on your car with sayings such as "We support our troops" and "God bless the USA". These people must be insane to think that their buying a ribbon from Walgreens manufactured in some sweatshop overseas makes them somehow more patriotic than the rest of us who, you know, vote and speak out about issues that are important to us. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure that some of these people are politically active in their own way, however, I don't think that putting a red, white, and blue piece of plastic on your car should count for any sort of statement, which some people think it does. I think that the guy who made this magnet had the right idea:

posted by Jamie # 10:45 PM

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