Don't Run

What does it mean to be a patriot? We aren't above flying an American flag on the house and studying US involvement in historical military conflicts. We don't, however, own a flag handkerchief or bumper art that round-house kicks "these colors don't run" in your face.

Though you may dress like a flag and buy expensive fireworks on July 4th, that voice from our conscience suggests that real patriotism looks a bit different. It may even startle you in it's idealism where violence, though a last resort, is clearly on the table and personal and physical sacrifice is a sacred rite.

We like to think that this R stands for "revolution" and refers to some colonists ejecting England from our shores a couple hundred years ago. We do apologize, however, if this commuter instead lays a steroid-laced barely intelligible cowboy smack down on you for not seeming 'Merican (whatever that is). That behavior is simply not patriotic.