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The Public Intellectual

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Patriotism is not achieved by putting the American flag on your pick up truck. "Supporting our troops" entails wanting them to come home in one piece NOW rather than in striped boxes LATER. The Public Intellectual practices "Patriotism 2.0" in its attempt to reclaim the founding fathers and American pride from those who are misrepresenting it (i.e., neo-conservatives and the "jesus Hates Fags" Right). It's been fun for awhile to win arguments against these "pseudo-patriots" but now it is time for a change. It's time for us dissenting bloggers to become the morally and intellectually superior human beings that our typing fingers have long proclaimed us to be. This blog aims to recover patriotism from its hijackers.

• Added on: Sep 14th, 2007
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: M. Frederick Voorhees
• Listed in: Political Journalists
• Tags: politics news world usa elections patriotism

Recent Posts

• Character, Decency, and Integrity: “No Finer Examples”

  Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 23:30 in 2008 Elections, americans, Barack Obama, barbara bush, bush, elections, george h. w. bush, George W. Bush, john mccain, politics, presidential candidates, republican convention

  From the transcript of President Bush’s video speech, aired tonight at the Republican National Convention: “As you gather tonight in St. Paul, I want to share some thoughts about our nominee _ a great American, and the next president of the Unit...

• Yesterday’s Tomorrow Wasn’t Like Today

  Posted on Tuesday August 26th, 2008 at 03:08 in citizenship, College, spectatorship

  There were pictures, and we smiled in them. Morning-after images blurrily resembled the night before, to remind us who we were, vague & hazy & lazy, drunken subjects under the flash who never sat still long enough to see it coming. There als...

• Preseason Whatever

  Posted on Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 03:33 in bill belichik, citizenship, football, junior seau, new england patriots, new york giants, nfl, plaxico burress, preseason, randy moss, spectatorship, tom brady

  My favorite team lost the Super Bowl last season. Plaxico Burress hauled in the game winning pass for the Giants, doused the flames of New England’s flawless season, and I felt nothing. It sucked for maybe ten seconds. Then I remembered wars wer...

• The McDonaldization of Citizenship

  Posted on Friday July 18th, 2008 at 17:36 in advertisements, Al Gore, alcohol, andrew weil, anheuser-busch, d.a.r.e., drugs, freud, george ritzer, little debby, lobbyists, mcdonald's

  (Previously posted at Jonestown) George Ritzer’s The McDonaldization of Society brings to light an alarming trend in our country. The new United States is a land of generic shortcuts, where efficiency and knowable responses have displaced the authe...

• Justice or Appeasement?: Israel Releasing a Terrorist

  Posted on Wednesday July 16th, 2008 at 11:39 in ahmded yassin, appeasement, Culture, Current Events, ehud goldwasser, ehud olmert, eldad regev, europe, George W. Bush, hamas, hassan nasrallah, hezbollah

  Two months ago George W. Bush gave a speech in Israel, in which he compared Obama’s call for diplomacy with Iran to Europe’s Nazi appeasement during the buildup to World War II. In other words, we should fight Ahmadinejad now, before they perpetr...

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