A busy legislature…

I learned from my Arizona Daily Sun (‘Serving Flagstaff and northern Arizona since 1883’) today that ‘hundreds of new (Arizona) state laws will take effect this coming Thursday. If you have a child between the ages of five and eight who measures less than 4 feet 9 inches then you must use a specially designed booster seat in your car – or pay a $50 fine. As of this Thursday Arizonians will be able to have their eyebrows plucked by unlicensed eyebrow threaders, show proof of car insurance on their mobile phones, study the Bible in school for literary purposes, hunt with weapons without regard to the number of bullets they hold and with a silencer on the muzzle. Among the 363 bills that Governor Jan Brewer signed into law are measures to exempt dogs used in ranching from the normal cruelty laws and (music to my ears) the creation of an official state ‘poet laureate’. So now you know…