Little Green Footballs and Desecrating the Flag

Dunno whether you know about a wildly amusing site called "Little Green Footballs." Oh, man, it's a hoot. In a we're all going to die because humans are so stupid kind of way...

Anyway, if you have nothing better to do with your life, go check out the comments on this story about a radical Islamist group stepping on and tearing up an American flag.

These morons (the flag-stomping ones, not the anti-flag-stomping ones) have picked a great time for this little stunt. I'm sure it'll be used by the Republicans for their annual July 4th effort to undermine the First Amendment by passing the anti-flag-burning amendment.

I've often said that virtually the only thing that would ever prompt me to burn the flag would be passage of anti-flag-burning laws. Needless to say, I hope it doesn't come to that.

I've suggested in the past that we should establish a national sign-up list now of people who will burn the flag if and only if such laws are passed. We need to get a sufficiently large number of people to commit to this ahead of time, making it clear to the anti-free-expression crowd that there is no way they could arrest all of us.