Toni sends news of a rather sad ITMFA sighting...

I was in northern Minnesota, where I'm from, over the 4th of July weekend with my boyfriend. On our way out of town back to Minneapolis, we stopped at the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Memorial to pay our respects. At the entrance to the trails at the memorial, there's a polished stone monument with a poem engraved on it. On it, people had left a few mementos—campaign buttons, silk flowers, etc. Someone had also left an ITMFA button. I contemplated (for half a second) taking it, since the website has been sold out for awhile, but I left it to remind people that there's still hope!—Toni

An ITMFA drama in one short act...

Dear Dan and the ITMFAfites: I am a lawyer, so I bought two ITMFA pins; one to wear on my coat and one for my shirt pocket in the office. I have to confess that out of respect and a little fear of retaliation against my clients, I take off the ITMFA pin in the courtrooms of Red judges. I have this fantasy script of a bench conference with some Republican appointed judge: "Mr. Nagel, what does that ITMFA pin stand for?" "Your honor, it stands for: "It's The Motherland of Freedom, America!" "Mr. Lawyer, I don't think that's what your pin stands for!" "Well Judge, that's what they told me it stood for." "Who told you?" "The folks who want to see Bush impeached."—Tom

And, finally, at least one ITMFA buttons is in the hands of a US Congressperson...

I handed one of your buttons to Rahm Emmanuel (D-IL) at a meet and greet in the Portage Park Jewel.—Cheryl PS: Sorry about your Cubs. Not real sorry.

Yeah, and I'm sorry about your White Sox, Cheryl. (I'm going to assume you're a Sox fan, since you're gloating, and that's not very nice—which is just like a Sox fan.) All that winning and shit—it's got to be tiresome after a while.