As noted awhile ago, California, as of this month, has brought public (and some private) school nondiscrimination or "hate crime" codes into compliance with the general state nondiscrimination codes.

The trouble is, the general codes are also insane:


Senate Bill 777, if you are interested.

And, recall how we here in The Land o' Nuts legally define "gender:"


"Actual or perceived... gender? ... race?" You mean, I can be whatever sex I want to be? Irrespective of "plumbing" or genetics? Yee-haw! Does this go for race as well?

I hope very much no lawyer sees it that way. It's bad enough that it seems to imply that if YOU think that SOMEONE is treating you ill because YOU think THEY PERCEIVE that you are something or something you are NOT, then the lawsuit-restraint gloves come off!

Truly, the state is run by "C" students. My apologies to all my students that I exhorted to excel all these years.





And so... a cartoony skit begat itself in my head (since I can't draw very well, I have hired stand-ins from my sub-conscious mind**):


SCENE: Delivery Room, in a General Hospital, somewhere in California:

I assure you ma'am; the child is fine!

New Dad: All 10 fingers?





Yup! 10 toes, too!





Oh, my lovely baby!





Is it a boy or a girl, Doc?





... !




You got me! Let's ask it!

Okay; so it's a little rough around the edges. But if they don't get a handle on this Protect The Feelings of Everyone By "Hate Crime" Legislation, well — I get the creepy feeling that no one is going to be protected from the law, and everyone will be guilty of some sort of Thought Crime against someone else...

Let me know if you can get the Vegas over/under on the number of lawsuits it will take to finally break the already financially reeling CA school system, will ya?

** With gratitude to Back to The Future, Johnny Quest and Wacky Races