I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow, and to the Republicans for which they scam, one nacho, underpants, with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

I'm a little disturbed that somebody feels they need to require the pledge in schools. I'm not against saying the pledge, and we did it every day in elementary school, but I do have a problem with putting the requirement into state law.

It's also weird to go to any public event where the pledge is recited, since so many grown adults seem to blurt it out in syllables like they learned it back in first grade:

I pledge a legiance
To the flag
Of the United States of America
And to the republic
For which it stands
One nation
Under God
With liberty
And justice
For all.

It's one sentence. Have you ever heard anybody speak it in a way that actually sounded like they knew what it meant?

(14:02 EST, Thursday, 25 January 2001.)