When I was in college I registered to vote as a member of the American Communist Party, even though I wasn't one and had no intention of ever becoming one. It was the one mistake of my youth, and I thought it would be a stain on my dossier forever.
This week, however, I was flown to Helsinki, where President George L. Bush (shown here) presented me with the highest non-military award a non-military citizen can get in the U.S., the Not A Communist Anymore Medal. You can't see the award in the photo, but you can see my stunned look as I realize its actual size (I had only seen the medal in photographs before). There's really no way to transport the medal home, as it weighs around four tons (not tonnes).
Anyway, it was a great honor to be among the 11 U.S. citizens who formally renounced communism. It was a grueling process, and I have my family and pastors to thank for helping me through it.
Though I had the chance, I forgot to ask the president "WTF?" on the whole Iraq thing.
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Now you've gone and done it. This blog will still be around to betray you when once again it's cool, nay, compulsory to be a communist. The guards in your re-education camp will read this particular post over the loudspeakers every morning in the voice of that starfish friend of Spongebob's.
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