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Flagging Interest  By Bob Woodiwiss · October 18th, 2001 ·
Pseudoquasiesque Dear Neighbor,  The fact that you, along with
everyone else on the street, are flying the American flag has
not escaped my attention. I suspect that my failure to do the
same might also have attracted yours. Please allow me to explain
why my display of patriotism is so lacking:  1. I burned all my
flags protesting something. Or things, I should say, though I
don't remember what exactly. Probably I flambéed a few over
nuclear proliferation; I was big on that for a while and I could
really get into a froth on the subject. And I torched plenty of
them at free speech demonstrations; those rallies always got my
flag-burning juices flowing. NAFTA and the WTO claimed a few,
too. Honestly, though, a lot my flags got ashed for less than
noble reasons. I mean, burning them kind of became my "thing,"
my "signature." I lit 'em at my nephew's Little League games, at
my high school r