Idiots in the house. And on the roads.
Bad news: Our “leaders” in Baton Rouge are looking to repeal a law requiring motorcyclists to wear–gasp!–helmets.
Good news: If the repeal passes, the mortality rate for idiots will skyrocket.
Bad news: David Vitter loves fast cars and loose women, but to the best of our knowledge, he doesn’t ride motorcycles.
Good news: Former governator Mike Foster can give him helmet-free lessons.
Bad news: Our recent eBay purchase of an Arte Johnson-style Kaiser Wilhelm helmet may have been for naught.
Good news: Sources say legislators may attach a friendly amendment also outlawing chaps.*
* Funny, you’d think that as a gay man, I’d be all into the chaps thing. But one too many sightings of a leathered-up Grandpa Walton getting gassed up at the Exxon has totally cured me.
"LaFleur said … To me, it is a freedom of choice issue." Quite exactly what choice would that be? Death, or not. Very Shakespearean. So, the legislators in Baton Rouge are actually encouraging people to think along the lines of literature’s most famous psychopath: Hamlet. I guess the ‘Good News’ flip-side, while v. macabre (again also v. Shakespearean) may prove to be true.