Lackhead.org » usa http://www.lackhead.org The irascible ramblings of some guy named Chad Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:19:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A French approach to North American geography http://www.lackhead.org/2008/07/a-french-approach-to-north-american-geography/ http://www.lackhead.org/2008/07/a-french-approach-to-north-american-geography/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:18:37 +0000 lackhead http://www.lackhead.org/?p=142 P1010333

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Those glittering abstract nouns aren’t sufficient, but they can be damn useful. They aren’t accurate descriptions of this country right now, and probably they never have been, but a lot of Americans are sincerely attached to them. And sometimes, when presented with a stark contradiction between the bedtime stories we learned about this country as children, and concrete effects of our actions, we will choose to make the bedtime story true rather than give it up entirely.

– Katherine at Obsidian Wings (brilliant post, very worthwhile to read).
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