A is For. . . "Amendment"

No, not the flag-burning amendment and not the defense of homophobia amendment. I mean Amendment with a capital "A." The First Amendment. The freedom of speech and press. It's a blessing, people, lets not let it go to waste, shall we? I want you all this week to exercise your First Amendment rights in any way you like; big or small, helpful or hurtful. Celebrate what your founding fathers gave you. Flex those muscles, they've atrophied long enough. Write a letter to your community paper entitled "how come nobody uses turn signals anymore?" Teach children the horrors of Communism by volunteering at a nearby hospital and reading Animal Farm. Have phone sex in a crowded elevator. Make a list of all the expletives you can think of and make them into an iron-on T-shirt to wear at the church bake-sale. Urinate on a political lawn sign you disagree with. Start your own weblog as a receptacle for your rage, frustration and disgust then complain loudly to anyone and everyone who will listen about how no one ever reads it. It's easy. Get going.