5 things from which our founding fathers should have declared independece.

1. email
2. cell phone/Blackberry
3. talk radio/cable news
4. unnecessary meetings
5. Lifetime Movie Network (isn’t there a limit to how many beautiful women from once popular television programs can be sexually/emotionally/physically threatened by raffishly handsome men who played secondary characters in television cop shows.)

A 24-hour Fourth of July film festival.

1. John Adams (HBO miniseries) – 8 hr. 35 min.
2. Independence Day – 2 hr. 25 min.
3. 1776 – 2 hr. 21 min.
4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – 2 hr. 10 min.
5. National Treasure – 2 hr. 11 min.
6. Johnny Tremain – 1 hr. 21. min.
7. Yankee Doodle Dandy – 1 hr. 25 min.
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