For One Week in March, California Will be a Cuss-Free Zone. Except for the Area Immediately Around Andy Dick.
It’s already against the law in California to talk on your cell phone in your car, and for one week in March, the state will implement another law that will simply be ignored by the majority of the populace: a ban on swearing. Full disclosure: the swearing ban is not really a serious law, but is merely a symbolic gesture voted into effect by the California Assembly, which is trying to distract people from its ineptitude via cute stunts while promoting civility. Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, one of the measure’s sponsors, says swear jars will be handed out to his colleagues and to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in hopes they will observe the spirit of the fake law by dropping in coins every time they drop an F-bomb. Instead of a swear jar, the Assembly should send Schwarzenegger a we-don’t-have-any-idea-what-you-just-said jar. In a week they’d have enough money to pay down the deficit and build a nice new shiny bridge to Hawaii.
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