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America is a hands-on place: we're not content to let our troops do all the work. We want to get involved, make sacrifices, achieve tangible results. Hating France is not merely an intellectual exercise; we're also renaming our food. Forsaking the Dixie Chicks means we have to spend that much more time listening to Shania Twain. Small gestures, executed by millions, are just as powerful as Massive Ordnance Air Burst bombs.

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Eric Alterman, whose writing I often enjoy and sometimes quote, will be on the Daily Show tonight to plug his book What Liberal Media? Yay.

I just sweep the yard and wait
For the whole world
to change
(any minute now)