I just came back from Washington, DC yesterday. My wife was speaking at the World Congress on Parkinson's Disease, so we made a family trip out of it. Got to see lots of the monuments, a highlight for me was seeing the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights.

All 3 documents are pretty faded, but they've done a great job of keeping them up, especially where Bush and cohorts have been pissing all over the Constitution and Bill Of Rights.

As we were driving home, some old fart with Marine Corps League license plates flipped me the bird, probably over the sign in my back window that says "America Stands With Cindy," referring to peace mom, Cindy Sheehan. Well, I guess free speech even extends to dumb fuck jarheads who are too stupid to realize that Cindy is fighting to keep our troops from being sent to fight for lies and bullshit, instead of noble causes. I salute that Marine for doing his duty, he looked old enough to have been in either Korea or Vietnam. Hopefully, he earned his indignation, instead of being some REMF. I also offer him back that same one-finger salute, just for being a mindless "My President, right or wrong" drone, and for being so tactless as to flip me the bird in full view of my wife and kids, and his own wife sitting next to him. Brilliant debate, Marine! Semper Fi!