Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Anna Bloviation's recent claim to ephemeral fame was a short-lived newspaper article featuring a momentum-building quote. No sooner uttered by yours truly, said momentum was snuffed out by a clerical error at the ever efficient State House clerk's office. This means that a certain bill that was en route to enactment now gets bounced back to 'third reading' i.e. it will likely die a slow and painful death. Too bad. I was only trying to help all the kids whose parents are too wimpy to say, "No dear, you may not scoot up sidewalks and down onto streets going 25 mph sans helmut, plugged into a walkman, and by the way you don't even have a learner's permit." The flip side to this is that not regulating these little adorables might mean the elimination of quite a significant percentage of offspring I might label 'low tide at the gene pool' if their parents' lack of demonstrated common sense in letting their under-fifteen kids rule the rode on motor scooters is any indication. Just kidding. Frankly the main driver to all of this for me is pure selfish protectionism. Were I to have the misfortune to collide with one of these motorized rug rats, I would be sued up the Kalamazoo into eternity. So on that note, I am very much for regulation and getting these froward miscreants off the road. Not that there is anything wrong with miscreants....
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