and you thought they didn't care

Following the Minnesota Fantasy Legislature, my team sucks. Not the worst, but definitely no so hot. Though, I have spent more time paying attention to the Really Dumb Things the state government does than ever before (including back in Michigan).

The 'commissioner' had a live-blog coverage of the House Finance Bill debate today; pretty amusing quotations. Then the Speaker of the House wanders by and wants to know why he wasn't getting points for some environmental bill he'd authored. I'm stunned the Speaker of the House is even aware enough about some amusing thing MPR is doing. Although, I find it equally amusing seeing posts to the website from members of the State Senate.

Go write your representatives and tell them to keep funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (well, those of you in the States).

Go, Team!

I've spent more time in the past 2 week paying attention to my government than ever before. The "Healthy Gophers" team in the Green League are moving up in our points. Not to be confused with the other team with the same name in the same league ...? I've got more points! (186) I took a look at the other team names, after realizing there were two of us. Like, who in the world thought "healthy gophers" was cool, besides me?? Given that this is a 'fantasy legislature', some of the team names were really amusing:

Kill Bills
Know Spin Zone
Whig'n Out
id10t
fear and loathing on the campaign trail
House Call
Phil and the Busters
Legislicious

Whig'n Out is my favorite - witty and requiring a modicum of knowledge about the history of our beloved political system.