No To The Nanny State

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An op-ed in the Hartford Courant recently warned that the Washington, D.C Health Department is considering a mandatory 24-hour waiting period to get a tattoo. The op-ed author unleashed a long rant opposing nanny-state interference. Even though I don’t enjoy reading things that have four consecutive paragraphs containing nothing but questions, I agree with the guy.

Seriously, why shouldn’t I be able to drink Big Gulps until I get diabetes and a doctor has to cut off my toes to keep me alive? Isn’t that my right? Shouldn’t that be fine by me, as long as someone else is paying for the surgeries? If reading this many questions is annoying you, can you possibly imagine three more paragraphs of this crap?

Like the author, I think this waiting period is a bad idea. Why? Picture this scenario: a mild-mannered accountant heads out with his buddies for a night on the town and wakes up with a screaming hangover. His head is pounding and his gut is churning. He gags as he stumbles to the bathroom. Through a foggy haze he thinks I’m in Hell, nothing could possibly make this morning any worse.

The guy stumbles into the bathroom and reaches for the aspirin. But he recoils in horror when he sees it – a huge black snake coiling along his forearm. Confused by his blurred vision, he thinks the snake is actually a penis. And he says “What the hell, how did that get there?”

Yup, a 24-hour waiting period would kill one of the best surprises out there. Screw the people who want a tattoo and will be inconvenienced. We need to defeat this on behalf of our friends who never wanted a tattoo, but got one nonetheless.

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4 thoughts on “No To The Nanny State”

  1. I hate these laws for stupid stuff like Big Gulps, sodas or tattoos. Who cares? If someone is stupid enough to drink five big gulps a day, let them live in blissful diabetic obesity. We can’t get them to control guns, but slurpees and body ink are a must!

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