OK, OK,

I love this country, and I'm not moving anywhere.

I am so lucky to have the freedom to stand apart (sometimes) from the prevailing sentiments. It's just that a freedom which we fail to exercise will certainly be lost.

Anyway, here's a better flag, flying from Belevedere Castle.

Those are meteorological instruments below it, as in 'the temperature in Central Park is...'

Now that's my kind of governmental surveillance.

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