Don’t Worry. Be Happy.

About 10 percent of a state legislature is composed of people who are totally loony

By GAIL COLLINS
NYT

In troubled times it’s important to pace yourself. There’s only so much you can worry about at once, and we’ve already got Egypt, the weird weather, rising food prices and unemployment. Plus, the secretary of homeland security says the terror threat is really high. It would be at least reddish-orange if we hadn’t gotten rid of the color code.

Good grief, maybe we shouldn’t have gotten rid of the color code.

At moments like this, I find it soothing to make lists of things that we don’t have to worry about at all. Such as:

Outrageous bills proposed by state legislators

In South Dakota, we recently learned that Representative Hal Wick, a Republican of Sioux Falls, dropped a bill into the hopper that would require every adult in the state to own a gun. In Georgia, Representative Bobby Franklin, a Republican of Marietta, introduced legislation that would eliminate the requirement that Georgia drivers have licenses, arguing that he was tired of “agents of the state demanding your papers.”


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