»In which we burn a cartoon flag

Amongst the usual self-indulgent signatures ("Sent from my Blackberry wireless handheld", the latest college football scores, the redundant email address) in colleagues' email messages, I found this gem:

The study by the new McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that 22 percent of Americans could name all five Simpson family members, compared with just one in 1,000 people who could name all five First Amendment freedoms.

The study by the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum exists for the promotion of "religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals."

The First Amendment provides us with the liberty to satire, so gleefully used in The Simpsons -- in one episode, Homer literally hides behind the Constitution.