The July Fourth Parade was entertaining and perhaps even telling from a political point of view and I made sure my son and I and our two bicycles got a good view but first--how did you enjoy having a car-free downtown? We need to do it more often.
BUT FIRST....how about that enormous Chinese marching band! Was that cool or what? It kept going on...and on...it seemed as if half the population of China participated. Their web-site says, "Falun Dafa (also called Falun Gong, or just Dafa) is a high-level cultivation practice guided by the characteristics of the universe—Truthfulness, Benevolence, and Forbearance." Sounds good to me, but what is their take on cholesterol?
And now for the political end.