So would we be able to unravel a flag? Soak it with acid? Stain it? Wipe our ____ with it?

I'm 100% against symbolic amendments.

ISO wineglasses would be the geekiest sort of cool.

You know, it does occur to me that I have enough shelf space to have the different sorts of wine glasses -- and I have the wine.

I just don't drink enough.

Is it actually a spelling variant, then? Though I think she'd still be annoyed;

Ayup.

"Duck Tape" drives her crazy.

But! But!

Okay, my mother's insane too. I don't have a foot to stand on in that kettleblack race.

M’Mburugu had a machete in one hand but dropped that to thrust his fist down the leopard’s mouth. He gradually managed to pull out the animal’s tongue, leaving it in its death-throes.

And I thought Conan biting the vulture was badass.

The paper had an article about the flag burning amendment the other day. The side bar listed all of the things that shouldn't be done to the flag -- print it on paper, wear it as clothes, etc. The question was raised in the article that if the amendment passed would all these rules be enforced. I'm sure the article was off the AP wire, so someone must have seen something similiar.

I detest flag burning. I also think that every time some protester burns my flag, it makes it stronger.

The side bar listed all of the things that shouldn't be done to the flag -- print it on paper, wear it as clothes, etc.

It does kill me that I'm sure (edit: some) people who support the flag burning amendment use flag paper napkins and stuff for their Fourth of July party.

I don't even understand the rationale. In this country you're allowed to exercise all sorts of freedom of speech against any and all branches of government short of what may be construed as threatening behavior. So you can burn pictures of the president and even print superimposed supreme court justice faces on naked bodies.

So what is the deal?

So you can burn pictures of the president and even print superimposed supreme court justice faces on naked bodies.

Well, those would be against the person, not the office, at least. It's one thing to say "I hate George Bush," something different to say "I hate America." Not that I think either should be outlawed.

Flag burning will probably lose some of its cachet when it's clear it's legal. Decreased shock value, and all that.

What cracks me up about the flag-burning amendment is that burning is the proper way to dispose of a flag that is too worn or damaged to be displayed.