WTF and I mean WTF??? Have I been snorting coke instead of smog? The LA Times, the slime secreting maggot attracting rag that passes for our local paper---get fucking ready---has another terrific editorial.

There is an ongoing culture war between Americans who are ashamed of this nation's history and those who acknowledge with sorrow its many sins and are fiercely proud of it anyway. Proud of the 17th century settlers who threw their entire lives overboard and set sail for religious freedom in their rickety little ships. Proud of the new nation that taught democracy to the world. Proud of its ferocious fight to free the slaves, save the Union and drag (lug, shove, sweat, bleed) America a few inches closer to its own sublime ideals. Proud of its victories in two world wars and the Cold War, proud of the fight it is waging this very day for freedom in Iraq and the whole Middle East.

If you are proud of this country and don't want its identity to vanish, you must teach U.S. history to your children. They won't learn it in school. This nation's memory will go blank unless you act.

I'd hate to see this rag turn into an actual news paper; it would spoil my fun. Maybe the editor is away in drug rehab and things will return to normal in a week or so.