"Why California is a failed state"

California Senate debates bill allowing citizens to decline delivery of a telephone book

With minor issues like a $20 billion budget deficit still looming, a California legislative committee has taken a major progressive step forward on a far more important issue to protect the entire state's precious environment.

In a stunning 6-4 vote that drew remarkably little attention outside the committee room, the state Senate's Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications has passed an almost pioneering measure that would allow California's many millions of telephone subscribers to opt out of receiving annual telephone books, a right that many citizens may have thought they already possessed without legislative authorization.

The bill was introduced by Sen. Leland Yee of the Bay area who is, of course, a Democrat.

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(via The Feed)

We have to follow the Texas model and have the legislature meet for only 120 days every two years (or better yet, two days every 120 years). These people obviously have waaaay too much time on their hands.