Two things-

1)I have seen the future of TV and it's name is "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." It's kind of Kevin Smith meets Larry David, a slacker "Curb." So far, they've made jokes about old people, terrorists, child molestors, and Nazis. And in tonight's episode, the cast members all pretended to be crippled as a way to party with strippers.

The show gets bonus points to for referencing WaWa and filming a scene at the "Mall," otherwise known as the King of Prussia Shopping Mall

2)So the Republicans are up to their usual tricks and busting out all the "cultural" issues out of desperation. Out comes gay marriage, flag burning, and NY Times bashing. As they have since, God, like forever. And as usual, it always kind of works as the Democrats just kind of cower in a corner, don't put up much a fight and wind up getting their butts kicked. You would figure after awhile that it would stop working with the American Public, but, well nevermind. You would also figure out that after having this happen to them for at least twenty years, the Democrats would figure out a way of not looking bad in all of this. It's pretty much like the Republicans are saying "hey, we're going to pass the ball on this play just like we did the past five plays" and the Democrats still defend against the run. Yeah, for some reason, the Democrats seem to think that if they got up there and spoke logically and about laws and facts and Bill of Rights and all that, it would work, but that never works.

So what to do? Put up a fight, try and debate. Or they could do a little jujuitsu and say "okay, let's amend the Constitution" and freak out all the Republicans who are really doing it for political purposes. But no, that might not work. So in my head, my little fantasy goes like this: the debate starts up on flag burning and one by one, all the Democrats just march out of the Senate and pretty much tell everyone that they're not going to hang out there and play all the Republicans stupid games no more. Then they give some huge press conference where they list all the things they'd rather talk about (health care, the war, pretty much everything).

Yeah, kind of weenie and lame, but what else is there to do?