Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie

To criticize the way the system works does not mean you oppose the values of the system. To the contrary, it means you want the current machine to better understand and hew to those values.

Mike Finley has written some good stuff lately (well, he's always writing good stuff, but he's on a particularly good roll right now), including this post about "anti-Americanism". He's tired of being told that he's un-American because he's anti-war, and with good reason.