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The Progressive Annotated Declaration of Independence (Part VIII)

And now finally the end of the Declaration of Independence, the end of my series and the end of the world as we know it.  What?  Oh.  So the apocalypse has been postponed? But I even bought a mask to cover my radiation scarred face when I worship the bomb.  The heavens declare the glory […]

The Progressive Annotated Declaration of Independence (Part V)

Continuing the series that has won me fame and acclamation can you spare a quarter for an American down on his luck around the blogosphere I now present for your reading pleasure Part V of the Progressive Annotated Declaration of Independence. For abolishing the free System of English Laws [1] in a neighbouring Province, establishing […]

The Progressive Annotated Declaration of Independence (Part IV)

And now for Part IV of my award-winning  thank god no one reads my blog or the government would be all over me series The Progressive Annotated Declaration of Independence.  I do this to help our progressive friends better understand this difficult, old and obscure document. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing […]

The Progressive Annotated Declaration of Independence (Part III)

Part III of the Annotated Declaration of Independence is now submitted for your approval.  Not that I care about anyone’s approval.  If I did I might wear pants in public more often. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose […]

The Progressive Annotated Declaration of Independence (Part II)

I now continue my progressive improvement of the Declaration of Independence (that hate-filled document of white patriarchy and heteronormatism.) But when a long train [1] of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, [2] it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off […]

The Annotated Declaration of Independence (Part I)

Like most Americans I celebrated the Fourth of July by asking the government for more free stuff.  But between having my hand out and bemoaning my white privilege it did get me to thinking about Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence.  The document is over 100 years old and hasn’t aged well.  It suffers from white […]