The Cider House Rules

What a long, boring movie. However, the point was that sometimes people don't and possibly shouldn't follow written or unwritten rules that aren't enforced or that they don't feel are important to follow. See I Corinthians 6:12.

Just like when Reverend Lovejoy counselled Marge Simpson to get a divorce,...
MARGE: Doesn't the Bible say not to get divorced?
LOVEJOY: Have you actually read this thing? You practically can't even go to the bathroom!

If you are still basking in the glow of Nipplegate, I guess it would be a good suggestion to get a life (and I suppose that same advice could be given wisely to yours truly). However, if this is something that truly got the FCC's hackles up, then why didn't someone fine Kid Rock for the most @$$backward display of patriotism on record?
As I was researching the novemdiales during which the official morning of "il Papa" takes place, I wondered if the U.S. flag was held at half-staff for 9 days as well (in continuity with ancient pagan practice). However, it turns out that although we ain't metric, we do our mourning in base-ten. Anyways, if you wanted to see all the horrible crimes that true patriots who would like to put in an amendment into the constitution against burning flags commit to their innocent flags every day, visit the following link. Basically, if your question is, are most Americans completely unaware of the disrespect they pay to their own flag every day, the answer is yes. So next time you have a 4th of July barbecue, get the plates without the flag pattern.
Here's my point. I think the problem with people who insist on literality or black and white thinking--"you're either with us or the terrorists"--probably don't realize how many rules they have violated in their lives. If they do, and they still insist on black and white thinking, then they're just being jerks. It's just too bad that John Ashcroft wasn't around when Jesus said, "Let he without sin cast the first stone," because Johnny-boy would've gotten a lightning bolt in the butt for chucking his rock anyway.