This is NOT your average July 4th weekend. America turns 250 on Saturday, July 4, and it feels like the entire world is celebrating with us with so many of the World Cup games being played here.

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I can’t think clearly right now because there is a rather substantial section of my prefrontal cortex missing. It’s a fairly important chunk, something having to do with rational thought. You see, it ...