“Perhaps you should try waving some flags instead of burning them.”

Students sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo:

Five Live Oak High School students’ First Amendment rights were challenged this morning when they were asked to leave school because they donned American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. Officials at the school chose not to comment on the situation, but one student said an official called the T-shirts “incendiary.”

His Majesty positively chortled when he saw this story. He finds it vastly entertaining that, in America today, wearing a flag is incendiary but burning it is protected political expression. For that matter, he finds it delightfully perverse that songs glorifying rape are protected under the First Amendment, but ads attacking candidates within 30 days of the election are not. I could go on, but it gets wearisome.