Ready to light some better candles?

Well, America, it's our birthday tomorrow! We are 230, and it's time to get over our adolescence.

Time to sign an accord on controlling global warming.

Time to stop torturing political prisoners (that we glibly call enemy combatants).

Time to stop murdering our own citizens and calling it the death penalty.

Time to provide basic health-care to our citizens.

Time to stop every crackpot buying a gun and mindlessly using it.

It's time, America, we put our iPods down, turned off our Blackberries and spent some time planning how to move out of our current state of barbarism.

Happy Birthday!