Happy 4th of July

It's strange to take a graphic from the former colonial power to highlight this year's yanqui Independence Day... but I'm not much in the mood to wave something star-spangled with events such as they are.

However! What really makes the patriotic sap start to rise in the Yanq is the memory of those days of yore when we actually fought the fascists. The above is a detail from a poster that was discovered by a used-books store in Northumberland England, Barter's.

It was folded in a consignment of dusty tomes from someone's attic. It's from WWII about the time of the Blitz when the original scud missiles, the Nazi V1 and V2, were dropping silently and randomly and destructively over England.

It had been so long since I'd felt that sensation of our governments trying to take away our fears instead of cravenly inciting them and capitalizing on them... that my jaw actually dropped upon seeing this poster.

Have a good day, yanquicitos. Try not to let the bastards get to you.