We are all consumers. It could be argued that we can more readily recognize major corporate brand symbols, such as Nike’s Swoosh, McDonald’s Arch and Apple’s…well, apple than we can recognize the current president, George Washington, how many Senators there are, or just about any other benchmark of Americanness. We are fast becoming less American [...]

Editors Note: Being that I’m probably suffering from a mild form of heatstroke, my misrememberance of the Oregon governmental figure that spoke before Barack Obama at the rally yesterday might be excused. It was Earl Blumenauer, not John Kitzhaber. I regret the error.(and feel like an utter moron for making it in the first place)

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