Happy Fourth of July weekend

“When we celebrate Fourth of July, we’re not celebrating the documents. We’re celebrating the intervening 229 years, and those good folks who sacrificed, bled and died to democratize those documents. I’m talking about pamphleteers, the Sons of Liberty, Sojurner Truth, Frederick Douglass. I’m talking about the populists, the labor leaders, the Civil Rights movement, the environmentalists.”
-- Jim Hightower

-- and Happy Birthday to Ron Kovic!