100,000 Protestors... Angry mobs of students...

[Alex]

Kind of a side point. But in watching the various talking head shows for the last few sides I've seen a meme developing about the idea of actually building a wall along the entire (or a significant portion) of the U.S. Mexico border.

Now, I don't want to get into whether it is a good or bad idea to build such a wall (I'd oppose it) but over and over for the lasts week I've seen the opposition side say "building such a wall just can't be done; it's impossible." They aren't talking about politically but physically.

I've driven I-90 from Seattle to Chicago. I've driven I-10 from LA to Florida. I've taken a train that used tracks that cross the Rockies. If we can build an 8-lane superhighway that criss-crosses the nation why would building a wall be so damned difficult if that is was we decided we wanted to do?

There are plenty of good reasons to oppose such a thing but picking obviously stupid ones doesn't help the cause.