One Final Word

OK, one final word on this whole Pledge of Allegiance issue, and then I really will return you to your regularly scheduled pop-cultural wibblings (there is a new Farscape on tonight, after all!).

A couple of hours ago, I was reading over what I wrote last night. Shortly thereafter, I got in my car to go out for a bite to eat and happened to catch a news report on the car radio. Unsurprisingly, it was all about still more violence in the Middle East. And, you know, it actually made me feel slightly ashamed. This is real intolerance. This is real ugliness. By contrast, quibbling over a couple of words, no matter how significant the issues behind those words may be, seems kind of... trifling.

I meant everything I said below, and I do still stand by it. But, you know, it is good to keep these things in perspective.

And I really am done now.