Here's an amusing video featuring Molly Ivins about the absurd Texas law against selling sex toys. Funny stuff. Video below the fold.
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Molly Ivins and the Texas Dildo Law
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Posted on: May 21, 2007 9:32 AM, by Ed Brayton
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Kinda makes me proud to be a Texan. (Molly Ivins, I mean, not the idiotic law.)
Posted by: Tex | May 21, 2007 10:06 AM
This underscores my favorite tenet of libertarianism--just because you do not support a law prohibiting something doesn't mean you encourage (or even not detest) that thing.
That said, if those are educational tools, my education was sorely lacking.
Posted by: Glenn | May 21, 2007 1:49 PM
Man I miss Molly Ivins.
Posted by: Hermagoras | May 21, 2007 3:20 PM
And this is a butt plug , under Texas law your anus is not a sexual orifice. this is because most Texas legislatures are Assholes
Posted by: Vic Vanity | May 21, 2007 5:24 PM
That segment from the floor of the House where the "Bible Thumpin' Dwarf" says, "If you were in my county, it could be hangin'." Later he says, "They probably would hang ya in my county, if they caught ya." This is the moron dodge. Translation: "Sheeeoooooooooot yall think I'm stoopid? You should see my constituents. We ain't jest stoopid we're proud of it!"
Posted by: TomMil | May 22, 2007 11:49 AM