Speaking of Constitutional Amendments...

How did I miss the 27th Amendment? It seems that in 1992, while I was a freshman in high school, we had a constitutional amendment ratified. Bear in mind that in 1992, I was taking high school civics classes. You'd think they might have mentioned a freakin' constitutional amendment happening right under our noses. No, I found out about this two months ago, 11 years after the fact, while standing not 50 yards from the actual, original Constitution of the United States flipping through a brochure given to us by the nice people at the National Archives to take our minds off the long lines. Sure, the amendment was some minutiae about when congressional pay raises could go into effect and not something exciting like flag burning or gay marriage that might actually hold the attention of 14-year-olds for a 43-minute class period. Nonetheless, shouldn't one of my highly qualified public school teachers maybe let slip that something happened to our Constitution that has only happened 18 times in 194 years? People make a bigger deal out of Leap Year, which happens more than twice as often.