I'm tempted to take my green tressed almost 15 year old down to Concord and knock on Rep. Levasseur's door and point out how watching anime gave her the idea of how to express herself in a non-violent, non harmful way that delights her and others around her. (and swallowing against threatening to sic the ghost of Grandma Yamashita on him, who survived those two nukes and died at 97 of stomach cancer because she didn't want to be a burden on anyone. Do you know how PAINFUL stomach cancer is? How long one would have to hide that pain? Can you imagine how strong her ghost must be? Mainly because I rather doubt the thought of a ghost would actually make the man think about what he said. I miss her. She didn't speak much English but she adored my eldest (first "great grandchild" in the US, I'm not sure if Aunt Fumiko's brother's children had children then. (Aunt Fumiko is married to my mother's twin brother.)))

I'm sort of perturbed at myself that my first thought was that elected officials should not have the right to free speech because it makes their constituents look bad. Then I amended it to "they can say what they like as long as they prepend those statements with 'I' first."