Despite my reputation as being quite conservative, I vehemently oppose any law to burn the flag. (In a weird way, I sort of see burning the flag as celebration of all the rights the flag stands for.)

I remember a formal debate back in seventh grade where I argued against an anti flag burning law. My teacher vidoetaped the whole thing and wanted us to stand outside near the flag and joked that I should be holding a torch. Maybe she was just trying to get my goat, but I was so peeved that she couldn't see the nuance that I wasn't pro-flag burning, (above parenthetical aside) but rather against a law outlawing it. (See Voltaire.)

Anway isn't the whole fucking thing a non-issue that politicians keep bringing up to avoid doing actual fucking work.

Not if it passes.

It's time like these that remember being only slightly upset that bush won the election in 2000. I thought, well at worst, it might be a little funny to have such an low brow idiot in office. I was so wrong. The world is so much more fucked up now that it isn't funny. It makes me so sad that I am smarter than the man who holds the most important job in the world. And I hate the senate. Both souless, pathetic, sackless parties. If this passes, this country will be confirmed as being filled with idiots. May God help us.

New York Anthony, please leave your silly superstitions off this board.

May Buddha help us.

NYA, you're smarter than theo epstein?

ha, just kidding. i too was somewhat indifferent about bush "winning" in 2000, because i had no idea that someone could possibly fuck up the country this bad. i was more annoyed about the fucking "subway series." amazing, isn't it? i think this is a chronic problem for those of us who came of age during the clinton presidency. i'm too young to remember reagan as a bigoted, clueless money-grubber, or the elder bush as a religious nutso. all i remember are my 8 teenage years of pretty mild partisanship and a fairly smoothly-sailing ship of state.

at least living under psychofuckwadjesusboy has made me more politically aware. not that being aware has led me to do anything...

Anway isn’t the whole fucking thing a non-issue that politicians keep bringing up to avoid doing actual fucking work.

YES. And I wish the media would stop reporting on it so the incentive for Congress to debate it would be removed. Although I suppose you can't really ask the media to stop reporting on what our national legislature is doing. Anyway, it failed, so now they can go back to picking on gay people.

I'm not too young to remember that Reagan sucked. Although my parents fed me most of that opinion.

it's not like my parents liked reagan, but it's only in recent years that i've come to appreciate just how much he set the country up to become the shitfuckcraphouse it is now.

and, at 7, i was unaware he was trying to facilitate the death of all homosexuals. i was too busy watching the care bears and eating pac-man cereal!