• A resolution “urging” Congress to withdraw the United States from the United Nations (the trademark theme of the John Birch Society, which last time I looked was considered a subversive organization in this country) because it “promotes abortion and population control”.
• A bill that over-rules the University of Utah’s sound decision to ban guns from the campus (I bet if kids packed pistols the professors would really be motivated to grade tough).
• The legislator who felt compelled to re-define rape, including the observation that it really is not that bad a thing, and most victims bring it on themselves anyway by drinking demon rum and getting drunk (tell that to the young girl in Midvale last year who was not only brutally raped, but nearly bludgeoned to death with a hammer by the beast).
• The other strange legislator who commented on the growing number of female criminals by warning that soon, the state penitentiary will be full of females and good, decent, law-abiding men should be alarmed by this and keep better track of their females (sort of like they do with the rest of their stock).
• A very, very weird bill that would have allowed vending machines in some schools, but not in others (does it really matter what grade you are in if the stuff is bad for you?).
• The bizarre bill that would drop the legal definition of DUI to a blood-alcohol level of .04, exactly one-half the current level, which is already the lowest in the nation (this in a state with the fewest number of drinkers per capita, probably).
• A resolution urging that the federal tax cuts be made permanent (really makes a lot of fiscal sense, when we are running a record deficit and fighting a costly war at the same time, this one is pure genius).
• A resolution proposing an amendment to the state Constitution which would define marriage as “only the legal union of a man and a woman”, carefully avoiding a clash with the polygamist lobby by not stipulating “one man and one woman”.

And it goes on and on. Hopefully, they will run out of such parallel-universe issues and find time to address the things most Utahns want resolved: funding for education, tax relief for the middle-class (not the privileged elite), ever-growing crime, destruction of the environment and rising cost of healthcare.

I just hope I live long enough to see them return to sanity.