The motives and politics are absolutely petty. The results are an ongoing nightmare.

“Imaginary numbers”? Sounds like that DC fuzzy math . . .

never became law due to the intervention of C. A. Waldo, a professor at Purdue University, who happened to be present in the legislature on the day it went up for a vote.

Ah, the good (not really, but bear with me) old days where even the crazies would listen to experts…

Also, this is brilliant:

the Speaker accepted another member’s recommendation to refer the bill to the Committee on Swamplands, where the bill could “find a deserved grave”

Everything is going according to plan.

“The purpose of a system is what it does.”