How's Your 4th Going?

We're off to see Wall-E.

Just because conservatives hate it so much.

Then back home for a quiet night.

Well actually, not so quiet.

I live in a turn of the century neighborhood in a big city. Things will get a little crazy around here.

There is some fascination in America with taking guns out on the street and shooting bullets into the air, as a form of celebration that is common at Iraqi weddings.

This is the American, Budweiser-fueled version of that.

I'm considering packing the bicycle helmets for the walk home from the movie theater.

How is your 4th going in your part of this great, pluralistic, and loving nation of free-thinkers?