The absurd becomes the everyday

" Stone's law wouldn't outlaw cigarettes per se. But if his proposal becomes law, cigarettes would have to be sold in California without filters...."

Things that twenty years ago were thought up by college students on recreational drugs, then dismissed in the sober light of morning as the silly ideas of drunken fools, are. nowadays proposed as actual legislation!

And like the foolish lawsuits that judges allow, this kind of idea is seriously considered instead of simply being mocked for the tyrannical foolishness it is.

((PS It's just the idea of the petty intervening nannyism drives me nuts. I never had much interest in tobacco, especially filter cigs, so personally I don't care one way or the other, but I despise tyranny in all its forms. Hope those who think we should only focus on Important Syrias Matters disdain my ranting on this.)