Fairly mundane, but pretty okay day. Aside from some supermarket trips--I seem to go everyday--hung ar0und home. Actually fell asleep on the couch about 3:00; was awakened when A. came to talk to the garage door opener people while she was operating it. It seems the sensors on either side have failed. All we have to do, I understand, is get new ones for about 30 bucks and A. thinks she can replace them. That's better than the $450 Ray paid for a new system...
Wider: I was just sent a "Born Again American" video on-line, which consists of a number of carefully diverse (black, Asian, Islamic, Jewish sprinkled amongst the pure Caucasians) singers performing a remarkably inane song that seems to be a protest against the Wall Streeters who profit from the current economic mess--or something. Of course, they sing in front of the obligatory "patriotic" backgrounds here and there around the country--mountains, farmland, college campuses, bodies of water--and, prominently mentioned, is the bible. Funny--why isn't the Koran noted? And I guess that lets out agnostics and atheists. No cliche is left unturned here, including the mention of how somebody or other "fought for our freedom"--presumably, by killing those not so privileged as we. It ends, as one could predict, with Ol' Glory snapping in the breeze. What strikes me as interesting is that this "movement" was founded by producer Norman Lear. Must look him up and see if he's as conservative--not to say reactionary--as this site suggests.
Later: Well, it looks as if Lear actually sees himself as a liberal. What's interesting is that he founded another organization that advertised against religion in politics. Yet the chorus of this video mentions the bible, clearly putting it on a par with the constitution for Americans. And, of course, the "Born Again" part of the title...food for thought, I guess.