Micah Tillman

My weekly article was posted yesterady at The Free Liberal, I just didn’t notice.

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In case anyone still thinks Obama is something new (after all this and more):
“Obama Cover-up Revealed On Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Bill“
(Dramatic headlines are fun.)
h/t Lopez/Levin

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My weekly article is up at The Free Liberal.

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Start with the “paragraph” that begins “The 5:20 TBA” in this Washington Post piece. Read three “paragraphs.” (Or read this Washington Post blog post instead.)
If you remember what neo-liberal/progressive patriotism is, you’ll see that Obama has essentially just identified himself and it.
The Right is right: he’s not patriotic. He’s patriotism.
He, like progressive philopatria, directs you [...]

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Whenever I hear someone talk about the violence of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” I can’t help but think of France’s national anthem:
To arms, citizens! / Form your battalions / Let’s march, let’s march! / May a tainted blood / Soak our furrows!
To arms, citizens! / Let us form our battalions / Let us march, let us [...]

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One by one our fellow congregants called for the mic, took it, and stood to congratulate the team (after their presentation).
It was good for them (the Colombian congregation) to see our team refuse — and explain their refusal — to sing the US anthem, said one responder.
Why it was good — what it was the [...]

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What actually happened was that the Colombian congregation suggested the following:

They would sing their national anthem for the team from our church
And then our team would sing the US anthem for them

But after the Colombians sang, our team refused. Instead, they tried to sing “Joyful, Joyful” (but forgot the words part-way through).
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One of the team [...]

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This story1 involves two groups:

A small team from our (progressive, pacifist Mennonite) church
The congregation of our Colombian (pentecostal) sister church (whose name means “sanctuary of peace“)

The former gave a presentation yesterday on their trip to visit the latter.
The former are:

“white” (or, rather, kind of pale-pinkish/tan-ish; maybe with a few freckles [if they're like me])
“affluent” (that’s [...]

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My latest “postcard” for Sight Magazine has just been posted.

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Had I written something more like this, I would have made things clearer for Mr. Miller & Co.
That piece is satire which can’t help but be seen as satire.
At least I think.
Turns out I’m not a good judge of satire in print, so I could be wrong. (After all, I thought the piece I wrote [...]

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