A Nation of "Nations"

Yes, we shamelessly promote ourselves in places like the Newsday forums and the Craig's List Rants 'n' Raves section. We expect people to ignore us or tell us to shut up. That's the American Way. But when we dropped a link in the comments section for the first-2007-baby story, we didn't expect this, from "Lisa" of Huntington Station (assuming she really is from Huntington Station, which is another issue entirely):


We're not sure what got Lisa so hot and bothered. Clearly, she didn't read our site, so we think she was just freaked out by the word "nation," which we happen to share with Aryan Nation and National Front.

But we feel sorry for Lisa, because by shunning all things "nation," she's missing these great Nations:

• Liberal rag The Nation
• Overpriced and often smelly theater chain National Amusements
• Shitty movies (with the exception of Animal House) with National Lampoon in the title
• Groundbreaking yet incredibly racist-in-hindsight 1915 film Birth of a Nation
• More-shameless-self-promoter-than-Long-Island-Nation shrill author Liz Wurtzel's Prozac Nation

Hmmm. I guess when you think about it, maybe we should change our name. To something like Long Island Island or something.