Flag Waving

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Chuck Munson wrote:
>
>>This is complete bullshit! This is what people want to say to pollsters,
>>but it doesn't reflect reality. I've been observing these behaviors since
>>9-11 and I would argue that a minority of people fly the flag from their
>>car or from their home.
>
>Where you been? In my parents' neighborhood in suburban NJ, theirs 
>is about the only house without flags. Many lawns are festooned with 
>multiple flags even. Most apartment bldgs in nonpoor neighborhoods 
>of Manhattan have flags displayed - a real shocker, in this hotbed 
>of secular humanism.
>
>Doug

Reporting from the middle of Middle America, I've seen few flags in 
town.  The temperature is 93° F / 34° C, and humidity, 41% today. 
Too damn hot to be waxing patriotic and waving flags.
-- 
Yoshie

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