I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM LAST NIGHT: WALKING DEAD EDITION

The bride and I are watching an episode of The Walking Dead, in which it is revealed that a team of scientists who work for The Governor are secretly using a wing of the prison where Rick Grimes et al have been staying for scientific experiments. The science team is headed by David Caruso.

Underneath the prison wing, there is a huge dug-out pit, in the middle of which is an Olympic-size swimming pool with no water in it. The pit is full of walkers. The scientists are taking live humans from Woodbury, gut-shooting them and putting them in the pit with the walkers, who duly eat them alive, rip off their heads and throw them into the pool, which is now halfway full of heads.

Scene: men in lab coats carry the victims down into the pit via a stairway cut into the rock. One of them slips on the stairs and falls into the pit. He is immediately attacked by walkers. His colleagues try to help him, but when they move toward him, the walkers surge in their direction. They back off and leave the scientist to his fate.

The bride and I are watching this episode online, and we can’t figure out why The Governor would have such a program in place. We also can't for the life of us figure out why the walkers would keep and collect the heads. Maybe that's what David Caruso is trying to find out ... 

And then I woke up.

Talking heads,

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WE’LL DECIDE WHAT IS AND ISN’T CONSTITUTIONAL AROUND HERE, MR PRESIDENTE

Back around the end of January, I mentioned how America’s sheriffs vowed not to enforce any new gun laws or regs signed by the Obama admin. 

A growing number of state legislatures – which just happen to be controlled by Republicans – feel the same way, and are crafting legislation making it illegal for any fed agentto enforce such federal laws on the grounds that fuck that gawdamn Commie Obama they’re unconstitutional.

Kentucky’s doing it. So is Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Texas and Wyoming, among others.

Well, good luck with that. The laws being proposed are essentially “nullification” laws, which argue that states don’t have to follow federal laws they deem unconstitutional. The Supreme Court disagrees, and has pretty much never upheld any nullification law that’s been passed. 

Between that and the fact that even Antonin Scalia has ruled that yr 2A rights aren't 100% unlimited, I don’t see these laws holding up in court. 

Ironically, the same could possibly be said of whatever gun-control legislation Congress eventually passes (if any). But why bother waiting to find out years from now when you can pass fear-fueled grandstanding state-level legislation today saying “FUCK YOU, OBAMA, YOU CAN’T HAVE OUR GUNS!”

Which is really what this is all about, I suspect. All of these law proposals sound more like politicians posturing and pandering to the paranoid batshit NRA wing of their respective voter bases. It’s kind of like when Idaho state senator John Goedde proposed a law that would require students to read Atlas Shrugged and be tested on it as a prerequisite for graduation, then after the story went viral and everyone laughed at Idaho, he said he wasn’t serious, he just wanted to make a point.

I have a feeling these anti-fed gun laws are something along the same line.

Then again, some Republicans seem convinced that that they know a hell of a lot more about what is constitutional than that stupid liberal left-wing activist Supreme Court. Like Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), who actually said this:

“Just because the Supreme Court rules on something doesn’t necessarily mean that that’s constitutional.”

So this could be fun, is what I’m saying.

You have no power here,

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