Last year, Charlotte put on a Fourth of July spectacular, attracting some 80 thousand revelers and creating a melee of about 2,000 afterwards. Not a good site, apparently. I was actually out of town, so I missed out. Out of this crowd, some 20 were arrested, and one person was shot in the hand. So one-fortieth of the crowd fought, and one out of a thousand involved in the melee were arrested.
I've always thought the idea of an amendment to ban the burning of flags was a bit idiotic, since you're actually supposed to burn flags in order to appropriately destroy them. But Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert, don't you know) stepped up to the plate recently to set forth why it really makes little sense. Perhaps our "dedicated public servants have finally solved the problems of crime, drugs, war, poverty, terrorism, healthcare, immigration, and the mystery of why our children are such idiots compared to Norwegians". Yay!
