The people involved should be kept away from politics for the same reason toddlers are kept away from hand grenades.

Ordinarily, I would save this for our semi-regular weekly survey on Thursday, but this is so galactically ignorant a policy move that it couldn’t wait for 24 hours. It is also the final evidence that, in the once sensible state of Ohio, the prion disease has reached its end stage. From the Ohio Capital Journal:

This, of course, is insane. The people involved in this effort should be kept away from politics for the same reason toddlers are kept away from hand grenades. It should go without saying, but apparently it doesn’t, that this is a couple hundred public-health calamities waiting to happen. Ohio—Vacationland For Epidemic Disease.

And who’s bulldogging this particular lunatic escapade? A proctologist. Write your own jokes, ya scurvy bastids. Captain Cheaplaffs is off the bridge.

Ohio is now a reliably Republican state. It is proving that it’s a reliably Republican state by going as far off the trolley as it can. I wish Tim Ryan luck in his Senate campaign but, boy howdy, he’s got a long pull up a dirt road.

Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976. He lives near Boston with his wife but no longer his three children.

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