As the impressive Peter Cook might have asked, “Fweedom?\u00a0 …\u00a0\u00a0 What is\u00a0 … \u00a0Fweedom?”<\/p>\n
It’s easy to love this country.\u00a0 We have more freedom than we know what to do with.\u00a0 The other day, a guy riding a motorcycle was protecting his freedom to ride without a helmet, in an organized ride to protest helmet laws.\u00a0 He went over his bike and was killed, of course, because he wasn’t wearing a helmet, but by God he died free.<\/p>\n
We’re free to believe 6 impossible things before breakfast.\u00a0 Well, four, if you include Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.\u00a0 We’re free to sit on our asses and watch the Chinese kick their own economy into high gear while we do conga lines in the pool.\u00a0 We’re free to debate the separation of state powers from the church – any church you like, in fact!\u00a0 We get to protest the inclusion of all sorts of religions in our government, not just one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When this country was founded, people were 60 percent water and 40 percent other stuff.\u00a0 That other stuff is now pretty much corn and soy.\u00a0 By choice.\u00a0 We’re free to grow more corn than we can ever eat, no matter how much corn syrup we put in our food, no matter how much food we eat in front of the television.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I’m free to sit here by the water with my beer and type this as I listen to my kids argue with their cousins, watching the tide come in.\u00a0 Tonight there will be fireworks, more beer, and celebrations of freedom.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We’re free to get moving, put our differences aside, focus more on our shared values and less on our intolerant ideals, and get our own economy into high gear.\u00a0 We’re free to get back into space, the final frontier and last hope for mankind.\u00a0 We’re free to kick-start our education system, to get away from testing math and get back to teaching math.\u00a0 We’re free to figure out the difference between violence and nudity and consider\u00a0which is more offensive to\u00a0God – any God – and which we<\/strong> should tolerate\u00a0less, more to the point.\u00a0 We’re free, on this 4th of July, to do all of these things.\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s easy to love this country without thinking too much.\u00a0\u00a0 Exercise your freedoms this year.\u00a0 They were hard won, and they remain hard fought by our soldiers today.\u00a0 Be worthy of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n You’ll love it more.<\/p>\n …<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Fweedom… What is … Fweedom?” We have more freedom than we know what to do with. We’re free to believe 6 impossible things before breakfast – four, if you include Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,16,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}