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virginia kind of wins at life, a little.

Sometimes I rag on Virginia, and I ALWAYS rag on my local paper. It's a piece of crap. But let's recall the time the alligator got loose in Portsmouth, and now these two bits of genius. First:

Cause for pause: Theft of cats can go unpunished

And I quote:

Stealing a dog is a felony in Virginia. Cats, however, get no respect. Snatch one and you're unlikely to be charged.

A proposed law under review in the House of Delegates would change that, making the punishment for stealing a dog and a cat identical.

A brazen thief who tucked a kitten named Ernie under his shirt and ran out of the Richmond SPCA last year sparked the movement for what advocates have jokingly dubbed "Ernie's Law."

And second:

I had somehow completely missed the whole bumper nuts phenomenon until literally TODAY, when I saw them on a pickup truck that had four different REBEL YELL banners on it and a big ol' pair of bumper nuts dangling from a chain on its trailer hitch.

For those of you who are as yet uninitiated! ( photographic evidence Collapse )

You'd think I'd have seen those when I was in California, since the Inland Empire is totally down with shit like this, but no. Southern Virginia Beach is where it's at, apparently!

Anyway, as soon as we'd seen the truck with the bumper nuts on them, my mom goes, "Oh yeah, that was in the local paper this morning!"

Virginia bill would snip anatomical accessories off vehicles

I'm sad! They changed the headline from this morning. It ran in the hard-copy paper as, I could not make this up if I tried:

Bill sets out to neuter 'vulgar' auto displays.

Anyway, I think my favorite part of the article is:

"The serious response to this is that if these objects represent an idea, then they are protected by the First Amendment," said Kent Willis, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia "even if most people think they are vulgar or lewd."

Yeah, they totally represent an idea: "MAH TRUCK'S GOT BALLS!"

Oh, humanity. Never change.

Anyway! You guys who are working on abouttwoboys fics! How are they coming? You're all writing awesome epic things, am I right? Tell me about them!