Watch Your Mouth
As the State of California struggles with its worst financial crisis in decades, lawmakers in Sacramento have finally turned their attention to something really important – cussing. On Thursday, the assembly passed a Concurrent Resolution declaring the first week of March as “Cuss-Free Week”. Since it’s only a resolution and doesn’t carry the weight of law, no one would actually be required to comply. But it isn’t hard to envision a scenario where the two brilliant assembly members who sponsored this measure, Anthony Portantino and Cameron Smyth, would have imposed a fine if they could have.
The idea originated with then junior high student McKay Hatch who started a No Cussing Club at his school two years ago. Using the infallible logic of his 14 year old mind, Hatch surmised that cussing led to drug use, pornography and violence and the world would be just peachy keen if we could only curtail foul language. So, of course, our elected officials thought that a no cussing rule would be the perfect solution to many of our real, adult problems as well. Why else would they take time out of their busy schedules to concentrate their efforts on this pressing matter? It certainly is comforting to know that these statesmen are legitimately earning their $95,000 a year salaries.
Come to think of it, perhaps this is a good idea after all. Maybe if the legislature spent more time on these types of inane resolutions, they’d have less time to raise taxes and drive business out of the state through their job killing regulations. In fact, perhaps we do need more legislation thought up by pubescent teens. How about an “I’m Rubber, You’re Glue Week” where everything unpleasant you say to someone bounces off them and sticks to you. This might curtail gang violence. Or maybe we should implement a “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire Week” during which, if you’re caught being untruthful, some official would actually douse you in gasoline and set you ablaze. Hey, it’s not any more ridiculous than many of the actual laws dreamed up in our halls of government.
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