
One of the great features of modern popular culture is how political religion and patriotism have become. Just kidding--it's not a great feature at all. I try to remember back to the day when they were simply ordinary, everyday, popular things, but I can't. Not because I wasn't there, but because I was so young at the time. Young and without any idea of how radically things would change. If someone had told the young me that God and the flag would become controversial topics, I would have said, "Really? How do you know? Have you traveled to [...]