[Questions] Danny Goldberg Takes on Teen SpiritJust months before the 2002 election, Danny Goldberg, the music industry macher who shells out big bucks to progressive causes, received an invitation to a Democratic Party fundraiser. The invite featured the following quote: "Never before in modern history has …
A Soldier's DaughterI read recently that patriotism is learned behavior. If that is true then I learned from my dad that America is beautiful. He joined the Navy at the end of World War II and served as Yeoman 3rd Class on …
Love It, Don't Leave ItZack Exley, the organizing director of the populist MoveOn.org, challenges Americans to move past divisive patriotic rhetoric to something that can bring the country together: "Perhaps as old political categories such as left and right lose their relevance, we can …
Competing ForcesI imagine different people have their own meaning of what the term "patriotic" really means. I believe it means "one who strongly supports and serves his or her country." Implicit and explicit in this definition is the will to fight …
SpokoinoIn 1996 I studied for a year in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, a city of about 400,000 people. Though politically a democracy, true capitalism had not yet set in, and I treasured a world made bright by people rather than advertisements. My …
On the Patriotic RoadAs a child in the early 1960s, I remember my mother playing military marches on the piano. I would march around the house carrying the American flag and singing every word to "Anchors Aweigh," "The Caisson Song," "The Army Air …
Liberal and PatrioticOne recent Sunday morning, while we were spending a wonderful weekend in Memphis, my husband was flopped on the bed of our hotel room watching TV. Being a news junkie, and because the only other things on TV on Sunday …
We Are All AmericansPatriotism is a sincere love or devotion to one's country. Patriotism is a cause for which many lives have been taken. Patriotism is people linking arms at a prayer vigil. Patriotism is people singing, "We shall overcome" because they believe …
FadedMy flag is a little faded. It has been projecting out from its bracket on the front porch for years but is still in remarkably good shape for such an old piece of cloth. The colors aren't as vivid as …
ConfessionI have a secret. I am not the biggest fan of America. I have never waved a flag. I'm no jingoist. Even in elementary school I was reluctant to say the Pledge of Allegiance. And this was long before I …
To Be a Man<b>man</b> n the personification of qualities traditionally associated with the male sex, including courage, strength, and aggression, or somebody with such qualities
LegsI will never ever forget the first time I saw her. She was the tallest, most graceful, most beautiful creature I had ever laid my eyes upon … Marlo Thomas … a gorgeous Marlo Thomas gliding through the Rec Hall. …
Good Ole BoysI have a new found love for the good ole boy. Growing up here in the class and race turmoil of the '70s, I saw the good ole boy as the enemy. The Southern man who embodied all I despaired …
Gay in JacksonGay. I've never really understood that word. I mean, are we all supposed to be happy because we're in love with members of the same sex? If so, is that why some people choose to persecute us, because of our …
Coming On HomeFour years ago this week I was languishing at a picnic table in front of tent No. 11 in an area called Boy's Town in the majestic Yosemite Valley. I was working as a waitress in a hotel bar and …