Lunacy

Jim! Where the fava beans at?!

In near unanimous aplomb, which I'm sure was celebrated over dozens of bottles of Opici, Congress voted today (398-1) to strike out the pesky word "lunatic" from US Code.

According to Senator Kent Conrad, one of the bill's staunch supporters, "Federal law should reflect the 21st Century understanding of mental illness and disease, and that the continued use of this pejorative term has no place in the US code."


The only one to vote against it and recently shunned non-believer Texas congressman Louie Gohmert believes that the effort taken to sit around, discuss, and vote on this issue was a total waste of time when bigger issues, say the end-of-the-year fiscal cliff, was sitting on the table. Unfortunately, the bottles of Opici were rested on it, so no one noticed.