Thursday, May 05, 2005

Dale's Law:

Naming laws after people has a long history--Taft-Hartley, McCain-Feingold. As long as it was the last names of the authors of the legislation, that was OK by me. But the recent vogue of giving warm and fuzzy first names to legislation has got to go. Laws, according to the Constitution, must be made to address the general case, not the individual case. To imply otherwise is a cynical marketing gimmick that exploits the victims it purports to champion.

So I propose Dale's Law. In keeping with my legislative reform program mandating that all laws must be written in haiku form (each of the Ten Commandments or articles in the Bill of Rights can easily be expressed in 17 syllables or fewer), I suggest the following language:

Giving public laws
a cute and personal name
is a felony.

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