Reign of Error, Part Whatever

You've heard us regularly crying for help here in North Carolina as our legislature has tried to turn science on its head. So, committed to keeping you posted, we here at the Plugged In Reign of Error desk thought you'd want to know what's up. For a moment, anyhow, our governor and his vetoproof Republican majorities in the state house and senate had stopped assaulting science outright. They appeared to content themselves with a kind of purer foofaraw. They fooled around with a bill protecting North Carolinians from nipples (one legislator suggested duct tape as a coverup) , assured opossums the right to work on New Year's Eve, protected the state from medical marijuan a, and introduced a bill requiring cursive instruction in schools . [More]