I have a feeling we’re going to see some legislation about that stat.  It’ll probably be some obesity-related piece of legislation, but I say leave the cleavage alone.

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At least in one instance.

St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock was killed earlier this year after he plowed into the back of a tow truck.  His blood alcohol level was nearly twice the legal limit. 

Now Hancock’s father has filed suit against the bar where Hancock was drinking… but he’s also filed suit against the tow truck driver and the person who called for the tow truck because his car broke down. 

Losing a child has to be one of the most painful experiences you can go through, especially when your child has paid the ultimate price for a very stupid and common mistake like driving drunk.  Not only are you grieving for your child, but there has to be some anger there as well. 

But as difficult as it is, that anger shouldn’t be directed at people who had nothing to do with your child’s death.  Blaming others instead of holding ourselves (or our children) responsible for our own actions is exactly the type of mentality that leads to nanny-state legislation. 

It might actually happen in Chicago, where they’re attempting to overturn the ban on foie gras. 

As you can expect, animal rights groups are squawking about it. 

No, I’m not making this up. 

So says the superintendent of schools in Indianapolis. 

“The graduation commencement is the completion of a 12-year program of study,” White wrote. “It is a joyous time, a proud time and a formal time. It is not a party. It is not a pep rally.”

Just to make sure parents don’t get out of hand, there’ll be 30 police officers on hand. 

I’m fairly sure that I remember a similar policy in place when my daughter Mallory graduated a few years ago.  I’m also fairly sure that pretty much no one paid any attention to the rule.  I don’t recall anybody being arrested. 

Short people and fat people… get ready to move.  Paradise awaits you in Massachusetts.

Ellen Frankel stands just 4-foot-8 inches tall, a size that allowed larger co-workers to playfully scoop her up at the office and make remarks about her height. Some even patted her on the head.

Lawmakers are considering complaints such as hers as they review a bill that would make Massachusetts just the second state to bar discrimination based on height or weight.

‘’People in authority will very easily make comments about height that they wouldn’t make about race or gender,'’ said Frankel, a Marblehead author.

And as a short and fat guy (though I have now officially lost 18 pounds in the past two months) I say “Get over it.”  Jeez.

It’s straight outta the movie “Footloose… in Danville, Kentucky they’re looking at banning karaoke and dancing.

City officials are looking at the proposed ordinance, as part of a review of the city’s alcohol policies. Some officials say the issue is when there is karaoke and dancing in restaurants, it creates crowds and more of a bar type atmosphere. They say it’s not what the city wants.

Now if this were a ban on karaoke versions of “My Humps”, I might be able to lend my support….

Nurse Bloomberg’s really lost it this time… declaring the Fraternal Order of Police to be a fringe group.

Now Mike’s got the International Association of Chiefs of Police on his side (a group that’s received millions of dollars to support gun control from the Joyce Foundation).  That group claims 20,000 members from around the world.  The group is made up of police executives, many of them political appointees.

The Fraternal Order of Police claims more than 324,000 members in the United States.  The group is made up of rank and file police officers, not political appointees.

Hmm… I’m guessing Nurse Bloomberg and I have different definitions of “fringe”. 

San Fran Mayor Gavin Newsome’s proposed some new nanny state gun control laws.

Newsom, who plans to formally announce the measures at a press conference in the Bayview district today , said there “needs to be common sense restrictions on gun ownership.”

“We should continue our efforts to restrict the use of legal guns and we will continue our efforts to stem the tide of illegal guns,” Newsom said.

The measures would make it illegal to possess or sell guns or ammunition on any city-owned property, including parks and public buildings. Residents would also be required to keep handguns locked in a container or be disabled with a trigger lock.

Though there is only one gun store located in San Francisco, the legislation targets licensed dealers by requiring them to provide police with an inventory list every six months so that authorities could keep track of how many guns are sold. “It’s about that one gun shop and making a statement to anyone who’s thinking about opening up,” said District Attorney Kamala Harris, who is one of several politicians who have signed on to co-sponsor the legislation.

“It’s focused on making it as inconvenient and as difficult as possible for people to possess guns in a way that people will be harmed,” she added.

In other words, they’re not even pretending this is going after criminals.  These laws are aimed at making it more difficult and impractical to be a legal gun owner. 

The damn dog ate my laptop power cord, so I’m going to make this brief.  Here are three stories (sans commentary from me) that are really newsworthy.

 In Josephine County, Oregon… no more Sheriff’s patrols after a public safety levy failed.  The local sheriff’s office has been encouraging folks to know the law on self defense and get their right to carry license. 

In Cleveland, Ohio, a state legislator has seen the light, at least when it comes to concealed carry.

And in Montgomery County, Maryland… they’re banning trans fat.  Because there’s nothing else to worry about in Montgomery County. 

… or else you’ll get suspended.

Seriously.  Suspended for a buzz cut.  There’s GOTTA be more to this story… right?

I saw this at Says Uncle.

Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.

The mock attack Thursday night was intended as a learning experience and lasted five minutes during the weeklong trip to a state park, said Scales Elementary School Assistant Principal Don Bartch, who led the trip.

“We got together and discussed what we would have done in a real situation,” he said.

Ah, but this wasn’t a real situation.  Not that they told the kids that.

The children were in that room in the dark, begging for their lives, because they thought there was someone with a gun after them,” said Brandy Cole, whose son went on the trip.

Some parents said they were upset by the staff’s poor judgment in light of the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech that left 33 students and professors dead, including the gunman.

During the last night of the trip, staff members convinced the 69 students that there was a gunman on the loose. They were told to lie on the floor or hide underneath tables and stay quiet. A teacher, disguised in a hooded sweat shirt, even pulled on a locked door.

After the lights went out, about 20 kids started to cry, 11-year-old Shay Naylor said.

“I was like, ‘Oh My God,’ ” she said. “At first I thought I was going to die. We flipped out.”

I’m all for preparedness.  I’m just not for freaking kids out needlessly.

Honestly, I didn’t think I’d be up and blogging tonight, but here I am.  Not quite up to hosting a show, but I am well enough to point out that Bloomberg’s a freaking weasel.

Through a spokesman, Bloomberg said McDonnell’s efforts to stop New York from sending undercover agents into Virginia to search for illegal gun sales was a “bizarre position for the commonwealth’s top law enforcement official to hold.”

McDonnell, meanwhile, repeated his warnings that Bloomberg will violate a new state law if he continues to send undercover agents into Virginia after July 1. He also accused the mayor of the nation’s largest city of meddling.

No, Bloomie.  It’s not a bizarre position to protect law enforcement from people like you.  That’s why the Fraternal Order of Police supports keeping gun trace data in the hands of cops, and away from nanny statists like yourself.  It’s also why the Department of Justice warned your ass not to conduct any more of these sting operations… because a) you’re breaking the law and b) you’re endangering criminal investigations and law enforcement officers.

It would have been nice for Tim Craig of the Washington Post to mention the DoJ letter in either one of the two stories he’s written on this in the past two days.  Incompetence, ignorance, or refusal to share that information with the general public… you make the call.

I know, I know… I just got back.  But I’m going to be out of pocked at least tomorrow, and maybe Saturday as well. 

Sorry.

Though this one comes close.

If gun rights are civil rights, why would anyone feel the need to hide the fact that they own one?

As Glenn points out, Sullivan’s actually pointing to a link on concealed carry, not gun ownership.  And Glenn makes the standard points about elements of surprise, not wanting the bad guys to know who’s carrying, etc.

But Glenn also makes the comparison to publishing a list of those who’ve had abortions.  I think I would have said, what about a law banning anonymous or pseudonymous (?) speech.  You can still say what you want, but you’ve gotta put your name on it.  No more anonymous editorials in the newspaper, and no more blogs by people named Starchild or UncleBuck. 

Would Sullivan go for that?  Actually, now that I think about it… he might.  The bottom line is we can exercise our civil rights in a low key manner.  Not all of us have to be flamboyant about it.

Classical Values has the details.

And yes, this IS being introduced in California.  Why do you ask?

Much more information here.  So far I haven’t heard anything from the District of Columbia, but they’re almost certain to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Unrelated to the nanny state, but I can’t believe the Minneapolis Star-Tribune is taking a writer like James Lileks and making him a straight news reporter.  That just seems stupid to me.

Animal rights activists in Austria want a chimp declared a person, which is bizarre enough in itself.  But here’s the line I really don’t understand.

“Our main argument is that Hiasl is a person and has basic legal rights,” said Eberhart Theuer, a lawyer leading the challenge on behalf of the Association Against Animal Factories, a Vienna animal rights group.

“We mean the right to life, the right to not be tortured, the right to freedom under certain conditions,” Theuer said.

“We’re not talking about the right to vote here.”

To be honest, why not the right to vote.  It seems to me that if you believe animals are “persons”, then shouldn’t they have every right?  Or are animals “persons”… but really only equivalent to persons with mental retardation?  Because that doesn’t seem like a very good argument to make.  “A cat is a rat is a dog is a boy with Down’s Syndrome.”  Not sure PETA’s going to get a lot of support with that line.

Anyway, this seems like a case of the animal rights nutters wanting it both ways.  On one hand, they want to declare an animal a person, but on the other hand they don’t really want to treat it as one. 

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So that these cute little munchkins can grow up to be responsible adults… not wards of the Nanny State.

Bad picture of Catherine.  It looks like she’s missing half her teeth (which would be amusing in light of the dentist story I posed yesterday).  She’s actually turning into a beautiful little girl… though I’m really hoping she doesn’t end up with my nose.

But if it’s a bad picture of Catherine, it’s a great picture of James.  He’s usually the one who ends up looking goofy in pictures, but I think this is a true visual of what he looks like these days.  By the way, you can barely see it, but he’s actually reading the Toys R Us catalog. 

I can’t believe there’s actually a ban on puppet shows from windows in New York. 

I can’t even begin to debate the pros vs. cons of window-based puppet shows.  But is this really a serious enough problem that it needed to be banned? 

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Sometimes you find the Nanny State where you least expect it… like in your mouth.

Most Americans are taking better care of their teeth, resulting in improved dental health, but tooth decay in baby teeth among children is increasing, according to a new report.

In fact, decay in baby teeth among 2- to 5-year-olds has increased from 24 percent to 28 percent from 1988 to 2004, the federal report found.

Forgive me for not panicking, but it seems to me a 4 percentage point rise over 16 years isn’t exactly cause for alarm.  Yes, it does make me more mindful to brush the twins teeth (but we already do that every night), but I’m not in a tizzy about it.

Dr. Mary Hayes, a pediatric dentistry spokeswoman for the American Dental Association, called the increase in childhood cavities “discouraging.” She noted that children are snacking more, particularly sweet snacks, which increase the risk for tooth decay.

…

Hayes said parents and politicians need to put more emphasis on dental health. “We need to get policymakers not to diminish the value of dentistry relative to health,” she said. “Medical care, especially for the disadvantaged, does not mean no teeth. The teeth are part of the body, we all go together — the teeth come with the body.”

Parents, yes.  Politicians?  Oh no.  I really don’t think we need the government to remind us to brush our teeth, or to make sure our kids are brushing their teeth.  Seriously… if the government has to tell us to brush our teeth, we’re pretty much screwed, aren’t we?  What’s next?  “Putthetoiletseatdown.gov”?