Tumblr Icon RSS Icon  Curmudgeon of the Day  By Matthew Yglesias
on July 3, 2009 at 12:55 pm  "Curmudgeon of the Day"   google
plus icon  That’d be Scott Lemieux: “And boring. Don’t forget
boring. If you’re at a decent July 4th party, whatever you were
doing is more fun than the fireworks.”  Look, in the grand
scheme of things fireworks are not actually that interesting.
That’s why people attend parties much more frequently than they
attend fireworks displays. But by the same token, they do big
fireworks displays once a year and if you don’t get more
opportunities than they to socialize at a decent party you need
to make more friends not complain about the fireworks. And for
as long as it lasts—boom! pretty explosives! it’s fun!  Here’s
the band Explosions in the Sky to make the point that explosions
in the sky are neat:  That said when I was in Russia one summer
and the Americans in Nizhny Novgorod wanted to do something to
celebrate our great land, the piece of nostalgia from home that
people thought of was