Happy Birthday USA
Happy Birthday, USA. I love you! So glad to be here welcoming visitors from across the big water for the World Cup. You are warm, generous, bubbling with passion and good food, and far more radiant than the gloomy vision sniveled by fiberoptic bots on the evening "news." You're as feisty feral outrageous rambunctious infuriating full of paradox as you were 250 years ago, maybe more so. I especially love you when your heart pours out a rainbow, when you overflow with spunk and generosity, spreading your broken fallen feathered hug to gather in the opposites - cowboys and shamans, Jews and Muslims, socialists and evangelist, gay Ken and Safari Barbie, because we're all dipped in the same Ranch Dressing. And if I wanted to live in any other country, I would. You have spicy buffalo wings and red slippers. You have a blank natal chart swirling with un-scribbled stars. You are much more than two dysfunctional outmoded political parties, neither of which your Founders put in...