Oh, say...

Because of the upcoming anniversary of its creation, we will have to endure endless twaddle for the next year or so about "The Star Spangled Banner." It will be useful to recall that the only reason this difficult to sing and ideologically compromised ditty was belatedly adopted as the national theme song was that news reached the capital in 1931 that pinkos on the Erie, PA city council were opening meetings with rousing renditions of “The Internationale."