On News 4 WOAI Today we love to talk about all the crazy new laws being considered around the country.
Of course, the law making it a crime to spank your kids, being looked at in Massachusetts, got a lot of attention last month. Even parents who don't approve of spanking seemed to have a problem with that one.
What? State government has done such a bang-up job educating kids and managing its money, you want to give it the power to tell parents how to raise their kids now?
Then there is San Francisco, dumb law center of the universe.
SF has now outlawed plastic grocery bags, meaning no more choice at the check-out counter between paper and plastic. I hated those paper grocery bags. Bulky, hard to carry and easily ripped.
The place where I shop here in San Antonio doesn't even offer paper. You get the plastic ones automatically, and they have a big drum out front for you to put your empty plastic bags for recycling when you bring them back on your next shopping trip.
Once again, I think a lot of people probably agree with getting rid of plastic bags... it is just the government involvement that bothers them.
Finally, the Wall Street Journal reported this week that several cities in California may make it against the law to wash your car. Whether it is just you and your car in your driveway, or one of those big, charity car washes to raise money for a cause.
Backers of the proposed law say car washing wastes water, and threatens the environment, because all that dirt from your vehicle ends up in the storm drain.
But... if my car didn't exist... and wasn't there... wouldn't all the dirt floating around fall instead on the pavement, and wash into the storm drain anyway?
I admit to being biased on this one too. When I was a teenager, I used to love washing my first car, a blue Camaro, out in the front driveway. I would take 2 or 3 hours on it, because I didn't want anyone else touching my baby.
Dad would see me out there and ask me to wash his car while I was at it.
I believe one of the main purposes for having a teenager around is free car washing.
But now the lifestyle police want to take that away too.
I know, I'm just a complainer who can't adapt to enlightened change.
I just fear we're all going to end up driving around with filthy cars, disobedient kids and loose grocery items rolling around on the floor.