A Victory For Globalization

Apparently, Freedom Fries are officially over. Those good men and women who love freedom and serve us as congress-folk have come to their senses and in a francophilic fit of conscience: They renamed Freedom Fries to French Fries in the House restaurants. Why this is important to me is, my friend Big Orange has, upon occaision, bemoaned to me: "What ever happened to Freedom Fries?!? Does no one care about that anymore?!?" I'd sigh and let him rant about rampant stupidity in the world and then we'd move on. Don't get me wrong, I love his rants; I'd consider myself a connoiseur of them. But this particular dead horse had seen its day, in my opinion. So when I saw this news, I rubbed my hands together in anticipation of dropping it on him. Here's how it happened.

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From: Big Orange
Sent: Tue 8/15/2006 3:09 PM
To: Flannery Alden
Re: groovy...

http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?category=vietnamwar&month=10272960&day=10272980

8/15/69: anniversary o' woodie-stock! Rock on, baby!

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From: Flannery Alden
Sent: Tue 8/15/2006 3:17 PM
To: Big Orange
Subject: Re: groovy

...Freedom Fries are officially over

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From: Big Orange
Sent: Tue 8/15/2006 4:09 PM
To: Flannery Alden
Re: groovy...

...such ponderous silliness is NEVER over for ME.

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And that is why I love him.