I was looking something up, while talking with a legal friend online, and came across S.Res.108, a bill which passed the Senate of our country. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you paid* somebody's salary that approved, or at least did not vote again, National Cowboy Poetry Week. Go Library of Congress to look it up.

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Anyhow, what I was actually looking up was the status of this bill. My friend says it's unlikely to pass, unconstitutional, and poorly-written. Still, we live in interesting times, when conservatives are bold enough to try for this kind of thing, and at the same time, (illegal?) gay marrages are happening across the country. My friend considers the bill to likely be a move by the conservatives to placate the religious right, and that the efforts for it to pass arn't very serious. Could that be true? Are the religious right so easily fooled? Or could it be another bit of something to rally around on their side, a prelude to taking over?

A thought -- I wished that the government could be honest enough to say when a bill has been sent to committee to die.. and it struck me how much it's like the doubletalk coming out of China's government. I guess, for one reason or another, some truths and happenings are hard to explicitly acknowledge.. Maybe it's really the same thing as how in coversation, some truths are considered better off unsaid. Truth is weird that way..