Gene Lavancy, on the Boston Fox 25 morning news called it “woosification’ when describing the recent proposed Massachusetts law required helmets for kids headed out to go snow sledding.

I can’t believe all of these ridiculous laws designed to protect us from doing everyday things. I’d bet that nearly everyone over the age of 30 rode their bike without a helmet when they were kids; rode in the back of a pick-up truck; and went sledding (excluding those readers from Singapore, sorry). There were probably some scrapes and bumps along the way but I don’t recall an uproar that we should outlaw these activities. What has happened to our society ?!

I imagine its a combination of factors but you can bet many of them are rooted to one thing, “lawsuits”. Of course, the helmet manufactures scored on the whole bicycle thing, and politicians were running low on things to keep themselves busy in congress so why not spend 100’s of 1000’s of manhours passing frivolous legislation. I mean, they have nothing better to do ? Right ? It’s not like there is a rash of personal privacy issues to deal with; or identity theft running rampant; or ethical issues surrounding stem cell research. Those things would never happened ! Yeah, right.

Wouldn’t it be fun to watch State and national politics if they were tracked like the Nelson Ratings ? Every morning, politicians and the world could watch the tote board and see their approval rating tank when they did stupid things. Well, OK. It would be funny for a little while then we’d all get jaded and cynical and then go back to complaining and ignoring them all over again .. at least until the next election.

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