Jeepers. I posted that thing about the Lakota and left to go get a burrito for me and welcome home flowers for the missus and I return to find thirty snarky emails about what a sucker I am. For example:

What’s sad is you fall for this BS. Means and his buddies are not officials of any Lakota Tribe. Period.

Well, here’s the thing: When I said this is sad, I didn’t mean “Oh gosh, what a tragedy that our Indian-American brethren are parting company with the United States.” I meant “this is sad” as in “this is pathetic.” Really, I do know who Means is. I know what suckers the French are for Indian tales of woe. And I do not think that the announcement of secession from the United States — if it were real — would take place in a rundown Church with a bunch of Bolivian cookie-pushers. Cut me some slack.