briantrumpet
Pharaoh
I'm always baffled by Americans' apparent equivalence between the Bible and the Constitution (with all its amendments), as if it's been handed down by God, rather than a messy document cobbled together in haste, and then subject to all sorts of additions in response to crises. Yet, the 'originalists' read it like some religious text, rather than an imperfect and outdated attempt to prevent exactly the sort of things that are threatening to destroy America as we know it.
(A microcosm of that is the sort of form I once had to fill in to claim about £10 petty cash from Devon County Council: it needed four other signatures (at different levels of seniority) to be authorised, no doubt in response to people finding ways to claim fraudulently, and each iteration of the form adding another layer of "Oops, didn't think of that ruse!")
