The Burning Question.

First - I want to announce that I discovered the success behind Starbucks. They make coffee for people that do not like coffee. Pure genius really. It is a "coffee house", but have you ever tried to get a plain old cup of coffee there? The minimum wage flunkie will stare at you like you have a second head growing from your neck. But order a "White Chocolate Mocha" - NO PROBLEM! Is this "coffee"? Not really. But they sell a lot of the stuff. To find another coffee house that sells LESS coffee than Starbucks you have to go to Amsterdam.

But back to the burning question. Republicans want to push for a Constitutional Amendment to ban flag burning.

It is about time! Why just today I had to drive around no fewer than 50 separate groups of people standing in the street burning the flag. It is really getting to be a huge problem. I was late to work and everything! And all those burning fragments floating around in the air set the bed of my truck on fire - AGAIN!

Oh wait, none of those things actually happened. But they could have happened! And this is why we need an anti-flag burning amendment!

No wait some more! - we do not need one. This nation has survived all this time without one. It survived the War for independence. And the Civil War. And WWI. And WWII. I think we can survive a few random people burning a piece of cloth. Chances are that "cloth" is actually nylon or polyester - made from Saudi Oil and stiched in China.

Who are these neo-cons trying to fool? And why do they want to amend the Constitution so bad? If the Constitution so flawed that it NEEDS more amendments? I do not think so. But they do.

So what political lesson did we all learn today? When you usurp a party and skew its platform FAR to one direction or the other - resist the urge to crown a mouth breather and anoint him leader. For when you do - and he turns out to be a mouth breather - you risk watching all your hard work going up in smoke. Bush will spell the END of the neo-conservative movement. All that hard work by the "moral majority" (which are neither moral OR the majority), all those years of work, all gone.

These anti-flag burning and anti-gay marriage amendment attempts are the actions of a political movement in its death throws.