Lots of people are commenting on Judge Vaughn Walker's tossing of California's Prop. 8, thereby invalidating the actions of Californians who voted to define marriage in one man-one woman terms, but the American Family Association was one of only a few groups to send me a press release on it. The AFA says one thing I agree with and one I disagree with:
This is where AFA gets it right:
Democratic State Rep. Linda Lawson of Hammond is part of a group transporting rescued dogs to New England because, she says, Indiana suffers from "extreme pet overpopulation," and the dogs are more likely to find a good home in New England since there's more demand there for adoptable pets. That sounds like a fine effort for a good cause -- if only she'd left it at that. But she apparently wants to stay busy:
Also reporedly under consideration: the dimwit ordinance, the dunce ordinance, the lout ordinance, the numskull ordinance, the blockhead ordinance, the dumbbell ordinance, the lunkhead ordinance and the lamebrain ordinance:
Despite calls from some parents and legislators for a later start of the school year, educators are having none of it:
Last year, the most popular start date was Aug.18, the third Tuesday of the month. Thirty-eight districts started on that date, while 119 started before that and 24 started after.
This year, the most common date is Aug. 17, also the third Tuesday, with 44 districts starting classes then, 107 starting before and 52 starting after.
I've already had my midlife crisis (actually, I've had several, starting in my 20s; why wait till the last minute?), and I don't especially want to live through someone else's. But I apparently have no choice. When the president wallows in approaching-50 angst, you sort of have to pay attention:
How to kill competition and drive up the cost for consumers -- just try a little overregulation, the way a Republican administration in Indianapolis is doing:
Seven cab companies are no longer able to operate in Indianapolis after their licenses were not renewed by the city's Department of Code Enforcement for a slew of major violations.
Get the big, bad government out of my big, fat life. Not much chance of that, if first lady Michelle Obama has her way. She wants Washington to take an even bigger role in freeing parents from that pesky job of being responsible for their children's food:
The intersection of 96th Street and Allisonville Road in the part of greater Indianapolis known as the town of Fisehrs is a busy one -- about 55,000 cars pass through every day -- and the average delay ranges from 35 seconds to 80 seconds depending on the time of day. They have a plan to reduce the average delay to 10 to 35 seconds, and this is a new one for me:
By God, this is just too much. I've been fighting against pork all my adult life, and now people in my own state -- those wastrel, profligate, no-good sons of spenders -- are actually going to celebrate it?
If I hear one more politician or commentator call the Gulf oil spill the "worst natural diaster in American history," I'll scream. Maybe I'll get lucky -- we seem to be in the "It wasn't nearly as bad as it seemed" stage: (via Instapundit)
