To lapel, or not to lapel...

[deminks]

That is the GE/M$NBC question.



Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, walks with Gov. Ted Kulongoski as they tour Vestas Wind Energy Training Facility Monday, May 12, 2008, in Portland, Ore.
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Whether 'tis more patriotic in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,



Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain addresses employees about alternative energy sources in front of a wind turbine model at the Vestas Wind Technology plant in Portland, Oregon, May 12, 2008.
(Richard Clement/Reuters)

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by not lapeling end them?



Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., smiles after arriving in Portland, Ore., on Monday, May 12, 2008.
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

My apologies to Shakespeare.

[RB TexLa]

1. The only thing proper to wear on a lapel is a flower in an appropriate situation.

[grannylib]

2. The old flag code forbade using the flag as jewelry; I know that's been

largely ignored for years, but it still pisses me off. Not as much as flag undies and oven mitts and lawn chairs and all that kind of shit, but I hate it.

[RB TexLa]

3. I was just going by common etiquette

[grannylib]

4. Oh, I didn't realize that was a point of regular etiquette, the flower thing

Works for me! :-)