Every year state and federal lawmakers make new laws but they never get rid of old laws.
There is a best selling book that estimates that Americans unwittingly commit an average of 3 felonies a day and never know it.
By now everything has been subjected to restrictive laws, and the last frontier is the bathroom, which brings many controversial bathroom bills.
Some states believe people should choose the bathroom of the gender indicated on their birth certificate.
Other bathroom bills permit men who impersonate women impersonating men to use... I lose track sometimes.
For many years home bathrooms have been available to anyone in the house, but this may change.
Eventually this will trickle down, no pun intended, to part 15.
Part 15 bathrooms will be required to be very small and just barely manageable with a 200-foot flush radius.
Before time goes by we need to start yet another initiative, the Part 15 Bathroom Initiative.
The ALPB wants no part in it.
The ALFT is curious...
Needless to say this whole bathroom thing has provided an awful lot of material for my morning show on commercial radio. I will not get into discussing it here, as I don't think this is the place for it, and I've done enough discussing about it on Facebook. However, I did make a rather (i think) definitive meme in reference to it. You may analyze it for yourself here. Oh, and feel free to share if you like.
TIB
this whole bathroom debate is a huge bunch of horseshit!!! it is meant to distract us from the serious garbage legislators are doing behind our backs to completely undermine our democracy and sell our soverignty to global interests!!!
this is what happens when mass medai is owned by a handful of corporations instead of a bunch of private individuals and our legislators (and democracy) can be bought by the highest bidder!!!
My preference is to avoid political discussions since I have found that neither my opinions nor those of others are changed by argueing, but in this case I want to say that Part15Engineer nailed it in his post above. I am more concerned with what is happening in general than by who wants to watch me pee.
Neil
(Soft cowboy guitar & harmonica in BG)
Woman's voice: "Who was that tall stranger with the toilet seat around his neck? He saved our farm! And left us a year's supply of Charmin"
Sheriff's voice: "Why shucks ma'am ... that's the one and only ... Bathroom Bill!"
(sound fx of galloping, as Bathroom Bill rides off into the sunset on the back of his trusty steed and companion, Toilet Duck)
On the subject of bathrooms..
I've been working up on the local pier and pavilion for years..
One morning I went into the bathroom and entered one of the stalls to do some business. No sooner had I sat down when some guy in the next stall says: "Hey!, how is it going?"
Well, needless to say, I thought it kind of odd to have a conversation with someone through a stall wall, but we get all kinds here, and the tourist do strange things, so I awkwardly replied; "Ok I guess, how bout you?"
He replied that he had just got into town, and talked about how drive down here was great, and on how beutifull the weather was..
I replied to him that the weather had been nice all week, but that it was supposed to rain tommorow..
He said: "So what you doing today?
I told him I was about to go to work, but might be going out to the boat after I got off work..
He then raised his voice, obviously irritated, and said; "Look, I'm going to have to call you back.. there's some idiot in the next stall who keeps responding to everything I say!!!
(Ok.. that didn't really happen. It's just an old joke I heard a long time ago!)
"this is what happens when mass media is owned by a handful of corporations instead of a bunch of private individuals and our legislators (and democracy) can be bought by the highest bidder!!!"
RIGHT ON!!
And Bernie Sanders who has talked about this in the campain won't be on the election ballot for president so the status quo will continue.
Mark
I was really into Rich Power's story which totally set me up for the joke, and it's a funny one.
These days people are all over in public talking alone with their little cellphones, and I often look over to see if they're talking to me.
I've wondered what it would be like to walk around doing a live radio show into a microphone... come to think of it Ken Norris already does that with his Walkie Talkie Show on Friday Harbor Tiny Radio.
By the way, I am typing this post to be in this thread, it is not a cellphone call.