Last Tuesday, the State House of Representatives kicked off the first regular session of the 54th Oklahoma Legislature, or as we like to call it, the annual gathering of wackos, idiots and nut jobs. It's the time of year where stupid bills are introduced, stupid bills are passed, and stupid Sally Kern offends someone by speaking. Basically, it's the TLO version of the holiday shopping season. The period in time where we get enough traffic and hits to keep us up and running for the rest of the year.
Last year's legislative session will be hard to top. We had bills and amendments introduced that would have banned fetuses in the food supply, made semen sacred, and given fertilized fetuses the right to own firearms. When they weren't introducing bizarre legislation, the crazies were doing things like fighting on the floor, inviting Baptist preachers to talk about science and the constitution, and complaining about the "edginess" of the OETA Movie Club.