There ought not to be some laws

Thanks to SALON for gathering up some of the latest gibberish from Republican lawmakers across the country.  It's only when we  see their offerings stacked in a series that we know how far up into the trees they've  climbed. We now have further  evidence that there's an odd  collection of creatures  somewhere up there in the rain forest that grows more crowded each day.

Here is SALON'S  notice that Bobby Jindal's S.O.S to his party to stop being stupid isn't working - not even close:

1. Let corporations vote! - - Montana State Rep. Steve Lavin's bill to let corporations vote in local elections via their chosen company representatives. (Corporations, as Mitt Romney once explained to us, are people , too.)

2. Criminalize gun control --Missouri St. Rep. Mike Leara' s bill  would make it a crime to propose gun control.

3. Birth control is poison --A bill passing through the Oklahoma legislature would give companies the freedom to excise birth control and abortion from a company's health-care plan.

4. Read Ayn Rand or stay in high school -- A bill that its sponsor, State Sen. John Goedde, eventually withdrew from the Idaho senate that would have  required students to read Atlas Shugged and pass a test  to graduate.   He said he was trying to make a point that  Atlas Shrugged  influenced his son to become a Republican.

5. Make teachers question science - Oklahoma Common Education Act (still in the legislature) that would make it illegal for biology teachers to fail students who write papers against evolution, climate  change and any other theory with nearly 100 pct.  approval by scientists.

All of this is merely an extension of what we've been hearing for some time.  For example, last  April, the Tennessee Senate approved a bill declaring that student hand-holding was  "gateway sexual activity" to be  banned in schools.   Of course, Tennessee was also the site of the Scopes monkey trial.