Here in Dallas, TX, we have "Six Flags Over Texas." Many Texans don't like to remember that one of those flags was the French flag. (Dallas began as a French socialist colony.) The Six Flags park has six areas themed after each of the flags' regions (Spain, etc.). The "French" section of Six Flags is actually replica of a New Orleans square. During Katrina, while New Orleans was under the Gulf of Mexico, I still could have gone to Six Flags to enjoy "New Orleans."
-B.
Carl Remick wrote:
"[Best article on the Iraq war I've seen in a while.]
Living in a Fantasy
At Home and Abroad
These places are better than simple gated communities; these are gated communities of the mind and imagination, the final step out of the 21st century into timelessness, into never-never land, a sweet and safe place which did not exist in any of the wonderful back-thens but have become such a large part of the American here and now. What a strange situation: a backward-peddling nation, unable to look at its present, much less deal with contemporary problems, physically constructing a series of back-lot movie sets for itself to live in.