UNSIGNED IN RED STICK UPDATE

The Gret Stet's mouthy but passive-aggressive Governor has now allowed 103 bills to become law without his signature. LINK. His wussiness allows former Governor Meemaw to take a shot at him:

"Blanco, who only used the tactic once in her four years as governor, said she developed her philosophy on bill-signing while serving in the Legislature in the 1980s. As a member of the House, she had only two buttons on her House chamber desk when bills came up for a vote: Green for yes and red for no.

"There's no yellow light on those desks," Blanco said."

Well played, Meemaw. Of course, PBJ is quite happy to sign atrocities like the creationism by stealth bill. I was hoping he'd betray his religious right allies once in office but instead he's sticking the shiv in his goo-goo followers. Wise choice: the bible thumpers are much meaner than the goo-goos. They'd smite his skinny little ass and all the goo-goos do is lecture...

Hmm, I wonder if PBJ was chemically castrated by Chief of Staff Timmy Teepell and his little winger buddies? One thing's for sure: nobody will ever sign a document with a flourish and say: "There's my Bobby Jindal." John Hancock lives.

All this talk about "intelligent design" or whatever the wingers are calling it these days has gotten me thinking about one of my favorite films, Inherit the Wind. It's a thinly fictionalized version of the Scopes Monkey Trial and features an incendiary performance by Spencer Tracy:

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