Obligatory Pledge of Allegiance Post

I guess that as a blogger I'm required to comment on today's ruling that the term "under God" as used in the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional. So here's my comment:

I don't care.

And here's why. Think back to your youth. It's 8:00 AM. Your 3rd grade teacher Mrs. Witherspoon tells the class to stand, place a hand over their hearts and recite the pledge, which sounds something like this:

"Ipledglegiancetotheflag (breath) oftheunitedstatesofamerica (breath) andtotherepublicforwhichitstands (breath) onenationundergod (breath) indivisible (or somesuch unintelligible mutter - breath) withlibertyandjusticeforall (breath-shuffle-shuffle)."

And so all the brouhaha on both sides will be spent on something to which no reasonable child is really paying the least bit of attention.

And by the time I was old enough to really care to think about the meaning of the words in the pledge, my conception of religion was well formed beyond the strength of any such invocation to influence.

So, as with the periodic anti-flag burning amendment proposals, a great deal of sound and fury will be spent, as usual, signifying nothing.

May I suggest that the energy spent on either side of this issue might be much better spent addressing the actual quality of children's education, their health, the environment they live in, or the debt with which they're being saddled.