>so how is this 'Love America" to say this, doug? carrol?
"Love America" is a bit of a caricature. But you seemed to think it important to profess patriotic feelings, and invoked your mother-in-law's reaction as something of a test. I don't know your m-i-l, but I don't feel any compulsion to shape my comments to please her. Convince, provoke, inspire thought, sure, but why should Chomsky or I or anyone have to play the God Bless America game?
Doug