bits of our fourth

i'm going a little beyond the spartan one-picture approach for this one, because it's too good to pick just one. we went to a crazy parade in athens, where the citizens take over a backroad and put on a drunken parade and a bush administration-bashing play that traditionally starts with everybody standing up and giving the finger to washington d.c.
never, i think, have i seen so very many people drunk and/or high and/or both before noon.

have i mentioned, lately, how much i love my home state, and how glad i am that i returned?
oh, and here's pete.