Anti Drag Queen Story Hour Laws are Just Plain Dumb.

I spent 18 years of my life making laws. More accurately, since I spent 16 of those 18 years in the minority, I mostly voted NO on laws other people made. But nonetheless, I was involved in the lawmaking process.

During this time, I saw it all. There were laws that changed people’s lives and our state for the better. There were truly horrific laws that made things palpably worse. The “So You Want To VOTE? Ha! F-You!” Act of 2014, one of the many voter suppression laws our distinguished colleagues on the right passed to stop people who didn’t vote the “right” way from making it to the polls. But hey! Props to whoever named the bill for being transparent!

There were bills that did change the law, but in ways that were almost imperceptible to all but a very small group of people. For example, allowing members of the Dairy Price Support Board to submit duplicate….oh, who the hell cares? The point is, unless you suckled on the sweet teet of the Pennsylvania Dairy Price Support Board, this law didn’t affect you.

While the evil laws certainly did upset me, they didn’t drive me crazy quite as much as the final category of legislation, which are laws that simply make no sense. Whether you agree or disagree with the impetus or goals of the laws, you can’t help being insulted by just plain dumb laws that are poorly…