This year’s Fourth of July fireworks promise to be especially explosive. The White House is endeavoring to smash the Guinness World Record for the largest-ever pyrotechnic display by shooting off 50 times more fireworks than last year. As such, the nation will ring in 250 years with barbeques, parades, and prescription sedatives for their panicked pets . I understand the appeal. As a child, I loved fireworks. Each year, I waited impatiently for darkness to fall and was thrilled when the rockets’