The Fourth of July
The Fourth of July has been my favorite holiday since I was a kid! Probably because when I was 4 years old my Father made me a “patriotic” costume and I led a parade in my Grandparents hometown, LOVE TO BE THE CENTER OF ATTNETION! But besides that, the 4th of July is great because of the weather, the picnics, parades, and everyone is usually drunk, bloated and happy by the time they are ready to blow a body part off with some illegal fire work! But what does the 4th of July really mean?
Independence! The colonists stood up to the bully and won! Damn right. Think of your older siblings, cousins, or that older obnoxious neighbor kid - they bossed you around and kept taking more and more of YOUR allowance and they used the money to buy the latest WHAM tape and made you listen! That’s kind of what England was doing to the colonists, making laws, taking more and more money and not letting them have a say in how it all went down. Enough was enough and Thomas Jefferson wrote ‘The Declaration of Independence.’ And on July 4th, 1776 in Philadelphia the Congress adopted it, you should read it some time. My favorite line is “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Pursue your happiness in whatever form you want this 4th of July! I will - by over eating, floating in my pool on a raft made in China, drinking imported beer, watching other drunks handle illegal ‘gernades’ and bitching about gas prices. I’m pretty sure this what our fore-fathers had in mind some 232 years ago. Go U.S.A.!