Feelings have no place in the political process.

Last month the Senate defeated an amendment designed to prohibit the burning of the American flag. The freedom of speech guaranteed by our First Amendment escaped a revision by the hair of its chinny-chin-chin. By only one vote.

Old Glory wasn’t upset because it has no feelings or, to use the word’s current political incarnation — sensitivities. If it did, the PC crowd would certainly oppose burning it. They’d say that such an act was offensive. It would intimidate and hurt other flags, much as a cross burning intimidates black families or airport profiling insults Muslims.

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Now that all the kids but one, Mario, are out of the house, the empty nest makes a big noise and my wife is acutely feeling it. She wants to get out there and make herself useful, mostly for herself. Nothing in Durham or Raleigh offers anything like the film career she had in Los Angeles, but she wants to be productive. She interviewed for a number of part time retail positions at a very nice mall called Southpoint and finally settled on one of them. What she reports after two weeks on the job is interesting and a bit alarming.

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