So the annual celebration of the Worship of Ashes is over

[bellatrys]

...and the US is collectively back to work puffy-eyed and bedraggled, except for those well-off enough to take the whole week off and make a proper European style holiday of it, because what it really celebrates is being drunk and cooking outdoors and setting things on fire and watching them go "bang". (Some Chaotic anthropology student should

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I guess my memory

[davidbyron]

is telling me the USS Constitution was first used in the Quasi war against France. Perhaps both are true..... Ok, looks like both are true.

http://www.ussconstitution.navy.mil/historyupdat.htm

I thought it was the UN charter that was supposed to be "quaint" not the US constitution which doesn't really say much about terrorism.

That reminds me of a nice web site you might like since you're a bit of a constitution hater yourself:

http://the-ppwp.org/index.html

a link to an on-line version of the People's History!
Plus try clicking on the link for "Statement of Principles"

For some odd reason, this seems to fit

[deiseach]

Well, seems to me to fit, anyway. Don't know how or why; it's just something about the chorus, mebbe