Being ridiculous is hard work

Governments work very hard. Really, it has to be hard work to be able to look this ridiculous:

Got that? They (Bloomberg and his cronies) are actually making large soft drinks illegal in New York. Take that, all you working class peons who might think you should have the right to cool off with a large soft drink while working in the hot sun!

And if you don’t think that’s ridiculous enough, Reason’s Nick Gillespie has some amazing news about the kind of workers the government is hiring to grope the body parts of travelers:

Last TSA Story You Ever Need to Read: Priest Defrocked Over Sex Abuse Charges Hired at PHL Airport

Amazing. I can’t imagine a better way to make government look ridiculous. Really, they have to be working at it. And talk about HARD at work. Why, the whole thing almost sounds like some angry snarky satire I wrote:

…the decent citizens in the TSA can be expected to quit their jobs. But who do you think will replace them? Obviously, people who have no problem with strip-searching little boys, bursting urostomy bags (I suppose colostomy bags will be next), and arresting non-compliant citizens while sadistically frog-marching them through airports in their underwear.

What kind of person would want do these things?

We all know that there are psychopathic creeps and weird sadists who live among us, but there’s something about the government creating a perfect job opportunity for them that rankles me. I realize that America is supposed to be the land of opportunity and all that, and it’s logical to assume that might be a sort of market for weird psychopathic voyeur sadists as long as there are people who are into that sort thing and are willing to pay to have it done to them.

But these job opportunities for sexual sadists constitute an artificial market, created by government bureaucrats unaccountable even to Congress. And the people who have to pay the sickos who want to do this to them are not willing masochistic consumers who freely enter some S&M house of pleasure, but just ordinary taxpayers — many of whom don’t want to travel on planes, but have to — some in order to make a living, others because they have to see a dying relative. They are not willing and consenting participants in the full sense, and none of them consent to letting some psychopath get his jollies at their expense. It is as unfair to make them pay their tormentors as it would be to make a rape victim pay her rapist.

Honestly, at the time I had no idea I was writing the government’s script.  I guess I’m not cynical enough.

Unbelievable.