Flag Hysteria
More excellence from one of my favorite blogs, the Dilbert Blog (he echoes my sentiments exactly):
I was delighted to learn that American politicians are trying to make it illegal to burn the American flag. That can only mean that my dedicated public servants have finally solved the problems of crime, drugs, war, poverty, terrorism, healthcare, immigration, and the mystery of why our children are such idiots compared to Norwegians. Evidently those issues are now under control. I was starting to worry that Congress was wasting my tax dollars doing stupid shit.




Which is sort of funny in and of itself because I was always under the impression that the proper way of “disposing” of a worn American flag… was burning by the proper authorities…
“The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning” -http://www.usa-flag-site.org/faq/disposal.shtml