Burn the Constitution

I find it difficult to summon any real passion over the annual ass-holery that is the Flag Burning Amendment Debate. If our elected leaders want to relax from governing by having a make-believe debate on a make-believe issue, who are we to stop them. Everyone deserves a day off. I would have thought they'd cool their jets by--oh I don't know--playing table tennis or spending a nice day at the beach. But I guess drudging up phony outrage for an act of protest in which no one engages any more is more soothing.So I say let them have it. Let them distract the distractable with another stab at manufactured outrage. After all, the gays and their diabolical plans for universal homo-conversion can't hold our attention forever. And the feminists, well they haven't burned a bra or taken a pot-shot at Andy Warhol in decades."Activist Judges" are a popular distraction, but there's something so pointy-headed about that issue. You have to actually know something about how the Constitution works to get upset about the manner in which some jurists do their job.Of course, eventually flag-burning will lose its symbolic power and we'll have to rally around some other non-issue.Or maybe our elected leaders will really get down to business and just burn the Constitution.By the way, any one know the total death toll in the Iraq war so far? No forget it. Who cares.