These types of posts probably bother many of you. For those of you that it bothers, I’m sorry. I’m just in one of those political phases my life hits occasionally. I’ll get over it. I promise. The good news is that this one is not at all related to education.

Phew! Breathe a sigh of relief. I know you want to if you’ve been reading my last few posts. Don’t celebrate too quickly, since Mr. Mad Cow wanted to get into a debate about education and I may have to write a retort, but we can rest from that subject for at least a short while.

My post today is much more about America as a whole, rather than the specific facets like Public Education that make our country so – as those less inclined toward intelligence would say – “great”. Yes, my friends, it’s time for another Constitutional post. But this one is very special, for tomorrow is “Ignore the Constitution” day.

Celebrations are somewhat as follows, depending on where you live:

1. Wake up and realize that you still live in America. This holds with it certain values like owning an arsenal of firearms and being able to say stupid things like “The problems of Hurricane Katrina are all Bush’s fault” or “I’m a Democrat”. You decide to take these valuable rights for granted as usual.

2. You walk into some room and hear on the TV that it is “Constitution” day. You remember from history class something about a bunch of really old dudes sitting in a room and writing down some ideas, but you can’t remember if that was important.

3. You hear vague rumors of some sort of celebrations going on somewhere that probably involve a bunch of people sitting around talking about everything but the actual Constitution.

A fine day, for all involved… except the Constitution of course, but his opinion hasn’t mattered since FDR came around.

That’s right, FDR, who was perhaps the worst president in our history as far as slaughtering the Constitution is concerned. All of his “New Deal” projects, hardly a single one allowed for in the Constitution. You can’t justify your way around this fact. I defy you to do so. None of the “New Deal” programs were constitutionally sound. FDR knew it. That’s why he wanted to get more judges into the Supreme Court. They were likely to shoot him down.

Unfortunately for America today, they didn’t shoot him down. We now live in a country where the Constitution is completely and totally pointless. We celebrate it as a “living document” because whenever a person says so, it magically rewrites itself to fit a new meaning, like something out of Harry Potter. Or at least that’s the impression one would get listening to our government. The entire government seems to be reading an entirely different version of the Constitution from the one I see.

You simply can’t deny it. We say our Constitution is what sets us apart (which it was when we listened to it) but now it’s truly nothing but a memory for America today. Yes, how hypocritical a country we are to celebrate a document we so often blatantly ignore, and then ask countries like Iraq to write their own.

Have a merry Ignore the Constitution day. It’d be even merrier if you actually read and understood the Constitution, but I know that’s a bit of a stretch. Please feel free to substitute a true understanding of the Constitution with a challenging retort as to why I’m wrong.