Bread and Circuses

       I woke up this morning, fully intending to write about Steven Spielberg's newest movie, Disclosure Day. Then I checked the news, and found out that Lindsey Graham died overnight. So we're going to take a quick current events detour, and then we'll get to the Spielberg of it all.      Lindsey Graham, the senior senator from South Carolina became a congressman in 1993, when I was 14 years old. When Strom Thurmond died in 2003, Graham took his seat in the senate. For those of you who are too young to know who Strom Thurmond was, you can learn more about him here . Those were some pretty huge, hateful shoes to fill. And, looking back, I think we can safely say that Graham tried his best.        A man with essentially no moral compass, in December 2015, he said "y ou know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell. He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He do...

     We need to be worried, y'all. And the reason we need to be worried is twofold: The Supreme Court shouldn't have a split decision on a very basic Constitutional question; and  The Constitution of the United States was never meant to be a static document.      On the first point, it very simply doesn't matter what Clarence Thomas or Samuel Alito or Neil Gorsuch feels  about birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was very specifically drafted and adopted on July 9, 1868. A 91 page temper tantrum does not negate that two thirds of the Congress ratified this specific amendment. And the job of the Supreme Court is to decide "....Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution..." I guess we have to say the loud part out loud right now, but the 14th Amendment of the Constitution says this:  Persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of ...