Worse and worse: The CPSC put up some new "helpful" powerpoint slides for their staff today (you can read them all here). Here's the line that's got me ready to move to Australia. Or, better yet, ready to make Congress move to Australia and let the country start fresh. Page 6 has the guidance on chi...

Ruh-oh. Klubuchar is one of the sponsors of the anti farmer's market food bill. She's also a sponsor of the CPSIA who both criticzes Nord for not agreeing with Congress about the bill and then insists that Nord never told her about the problems in the bill.Well, she knows about them now, and she's s...

Tristan at Maiden America has a new CPSIA logo based on the Declaration of Independence. See it over in the sidebar. I mentioned this table Friday showing the billions in dollars in losses due to the CPSIA, but there are more additions today, it's a great tool, awesome research, and the word should ...

If y'all are like me, and I know some of you are, you feel like you've been banging your fists against an impenetrable wall, and the only thing you've accomplished is to make your knuckles raw and bloody. It's discouraging to see how hard it is to get elected officials to even acknowledge that the p...

This link from Amy at Amy's Humble Musing isn't directly CPSIA related, but it is a model of the sort of mindset that gave us such an over-reaching and ill thought out law. It is, in fact, a perfect example of how our government 'works:' Fast action on the Hill Eight days after a chimp attacks a wom...

JavaMom, blogger, homeschooling mom, believer, artisan book binder (and many other good things)- is eloquent in her protest of this horrible law and its consequences (hey, Congress, if you want us to believe they were 'unintentional,' then UNDO them!): 1)Our former President and Congress voted on th...

Senator Jim DeMint has a reform bill in Committee right now.That link is to an article he wrote about it, this link is to a site where you can read the test of S. 374, his reform bill. THere is also a version in the House, here is where you can read the actual bill. Unfortunately, it's in the same C...

You may remember how much heavy lifting PIRG and Public Citizen did to get this bill passed, and to make it even wrose than it was to being with. Review this post to refresh your memory, if need be. Rick Woldenberg reports: Bob Adler of the University of North Carolina Business School and the Obama ...

From Amazon: "A pepper pot, left behind by picnickers in the French countryside, seeks his fortune, and finds it in a beautiful farmhouse saltcellar. " Published in 1982. Beautiful artwork, charming story. There are some later editions, but this is the one I found at a library booksale and which wou...

Death, death, come away, death.Our books be laidIn the landfill's deep, dark maw. Books, books, Good-bye to old books.They are slain by aUtterly stupid, ill judged, ill read, ill considered and asinine law. Shakespeare, I am clearly not. But neither have our law-makers displayed the level of jurispr...