Pledge of Allegiance

Just Wondering . . .

I attended a real estate industry function last week (no, that's not what's pictured at right) where the first order of business -- after breakfast but before the formal presentation -- was to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Call it corny, quaint, naive, theistic (yes, the pledge includes the line "under God" -- call the ACLU, whatever).

But the underlying sentiment was unmistakably pure -- and patriotic.

Do you think any Wall Street firms interrupt their breakfasts to recite the Pledge??

Maybe that's the problem (theirs and ours, both).