Language Arts

One morning this week, I was listening to the radio and heard one of our government officials talk about threats on "the homeland".

Maybe because I just finished reading a novel about Nazis in World War II, the phrase "the homeland" really bugged me. I know we've been using this phrase for years, but for some reason it stuck with me.

I went out to the web today to see if I could find out who said it. Everyone appears to have said it. Well, many people currently in leadership. (Including President Bush, in an early July visit to Cleveland.)

(I also wound up on a page exhorting me to join the GOP. When I hit the back arrow to go back to the google search that landed me there, I couldn't. Can the GOP (or, more accurately, extremist factions thereof) disable the back arrow on my web browser, too? But I digress.)

I am not a citizen of The Fatherland. I mean, The Homeland. I am an American.

(And on another note, a yoga teacher friend told me that 24 will have a female president next season. Hmmm. Will she be stupid, or evil?)