Democracy At Work

I'm at my desk taking a brief break from packed committee rooms, marble staircases filled with lobbyists talking frantically on cell phones and trading my professional soul for a good seat up front.

Among the bills working their way through our system:

• The Bill of Bigots (as I am charmingly calling it), which doesn't let them eee-legal Mexicans use our hospitals or schools. I imagine that this lovely bit of ignorant legislation is coming from some jerk who has decided that the only immigrants he wants are of the WASP variety and all others should be left to rot. You can decide for yourself if the jerk is the one who is actually sponsoring the bill or the constituent he is pandering to.
• Fetal Development Curriculum Bill, which pounds in to our young people that abortion is murder with lovely pictorials of aborted fetuses. While I myself would not choose an abortion, I do not think that this is perhaps the way to go about changing minds.
• The Non-Regulation Deregulation Bill. Yes, that is actually a double negative, making the deregulation bill quite regulatory. In the words of Coffee Tawk, talk amongst yourselves.

Stay tuned for other fun bits from the statehouse. The session is just getting warmed up.