Lighten up, HDPM. Let's not worry about who's showing the flag and who's not. My wife put a flag on her car. It looks like a toy flag. After one day it's frayed and I swear it's colors are fading. She paid $30.00 for it at the car wash. $30.00 for a toy flag! I'd rather she would have given the money to the Red Cross or a group raising money for the victims in N.Y.


So a lot the flag-waving mania is apparently not being generated by patriotic fervor.


More important than the fire department flag, is the fact that there was a demonstration in favor of peace in Berkeley today. Apparently 2,000 people. Also they were apparently drowned out by people chanting USA. So there are a lot of people in the Berkeley area who are not lefties. And the spirit of democracy lives.