Meanwhile, outside, whittling:

“Well, I hear they on IMAO again.”

“Mm hmm. What’s the fish think of it?”

“Don’t like that DamnCat.”

(I’ll Come Up With a “Rose” Parks Joke, Later)

Louisiana Finally Fixes America’s Dumbest Licensing Requirement
Reason | May 30, 2024 | Eric Boehm

America’s most insane occupational licensing law is about to get a whole lot better.

Louisiana is the only state in the country that requires florists to be licensed by the government. A bill that is now on the way to Gov. Jeff Landry’s desk sadly won’t change that fact, but it will eliminate the mandatory test that prospective florists in Louisiana must pass before being allowed to earn a living by placing different types of flowers together in an arrangement. Going forward, obtaining a florist license will require only the payment of a fee to the state.

The bill cleared its final legislative hurdle with a unanimous vote in the state House on Wednesday. Landry, a Republican who has supported other licensing reforms, is expected to sign it.

Requiring any sort of government permission slip before someone can work as a florist is obviously ridiculous, and Louisiana’s florist-testing regime was a uniquely perverse and protectionist scheme. This week’s passage of state Rep. Mike Bayham’s (R–Chalmette) reform bill is the culmination of a two-decade battle to eliminate it.

That effort began in the early 2000s, when the Institute for Justice filed a lawsuit challenging the florist licensing law. One of the plaintiffs in that case, a woman named Sandy Meadows, had been fired from her job at a Baton Rogue grocery store when state inspectors discovered she had been arranging flowers without the proper license. She tragically died, unemployed and in poverty, before the case could be heard.

SMOD long overdue.

81-year-old man arrested in Azusa ‘serial slingshot’ shootings has died
NBC Los Angeles | 05/30/2024 | Jonathan Lloyd

So, I guess we’ll call any projectile launched by a slingshot a “shooting”

A man arrested this month in connection with what authorities described as “serial slingshot” shootings in Azusa has died.

OK, then. “Shootings.”

Prince King,

Nice name. But what did he call his son?

81, died Wednesday at a home,

… any particular home?

according to the LA County Medical Examiner. The cause of death was arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to the medical examiner’s office.

This is news? No one else died that day in the U.S. of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease?

King was released from custody Tuesday morning on his own recognizance and made his first court appearance this week in connection with the vandalism that neighbors said had gone on for about 10 years in the San Gabriel Valley neighborhood. Dozens of people in the neighborhood reported windows, car windshields and other property damaged by ball bearings that were found in their yards.

10 years?

Released on his own recognizance? Did he change? (Well, I guess he has now.)

Gator had missing woman’s remains in its jaws when Houston police shot it dead
San Antonio Express News | 05/31/2024 | Rhyma Castillo

Authorities discovered the remains of a missing woman in the jaws of an alligator this week in Houston, prompting an investigation into her cause of death by the city’s Homicide Division Sergeants.

I have a guess, Homicide Division Sergeants.

“Patrol officers located the remains of a woman in the jaws of an alligator in the Horsepen Bayou,

you see . . .

just west of El Dorado Boulevard, while searching the area for a woman reported missing” on Tuesday, Houston police said in a Wednesday release.

Police did not name the woman,

Her parents did that.

who they believe to be in her 60s,

because there are no records of her on file?

but they told KHOU-TV that she went for a walk around 7:30 p.m. Monday and never returned. Her husband reported her missing Tuesday morning.

Quick, isn’t he?

Houston police fatally shot the alligator

… as opposed to … ?

“to prevent it from doing more damage to the remains,” after which a dive team retrieved the remains and the alligator from Horsepen Bayou, according to the Wednesday release.

“At this time, the investigation is pending cause and manner of death, to be determined by an autopsy,” police said.

Oppo cashes in his chips.

Canadian city of Victoria flies “period flag” to “work towards menstrual equity”
Not the Bee | 5/31/2024 | Cardinal Pritchard

I’m not joking, this is a real post from a real city in Canada promoting a real leftist holiday called Menstrual Hygiene Day.

City of Victoria
Today we join efforts to reduce the stigma around periods & work towards menstrual equity. City Hall will light up red & display the period flag on our community flagpole.

Man on fire inside Florida Publix; police investigating 30-year-old in critical condition after fire
news4jax | May 29, 2024 | Christie Zizo

PLANT CITY, Fla. – Police in Plant City are investigating why a man was on fire inside a Publix Supermarket, News4JAX’s sister station WKMG reported.

Police said they received a call Wednesday about a 30-year-old man on fire inside the store on James L. Redman Parkway in Plant City around 6:35 p.m.

People inside the store tried to extinguish the flames.

Plant City Fire Rescue took the man to a nearby hospital where he is listed in critical condition.

No word on how the man caught fire inside the store.