Friday, October 2, 2009

Where Are the Funny Laws?

Al Franken (D.Minn) has suggested an amendment to the healthcare bill now being debated in the Senate. The amendment would mandate that 90% of the billions of dollars slated to support the health insurance companies, under the new bill, would have to go to health care itself.  Only 10% would be allowed for "administrative" costs (still many billions of dollars).   Good idea.

Good idea, but I'm a bit disappointed.  There's nothing at all funny about Al's amendment.  I was hoping that when Franken was elected, we'd finally get some laws that were intentionally funny.  A former comedian, I'm sure he's still a very funny guy.   Perhaps a law, patterned after American Idol, that would make all the insurance company execs compete in a gigantic, round-robin farting contest.  Or Topless Tuesdays in insurance offices.  Funny hats?   I don't know.  If anybody's reading this maybe you can suggest a funny law or two and we can send them all in.  You never know.

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