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"There's never been a law yet that didn't have a ridiculous consequence in some unusual situation; there's probably never been a government program that didn't accidentally benefit someone it wasn't intended to. Most people who work in government understand that what you do about it is fix the problem -- you don't just attack the whole government." -- Molly Ivins (via Jone Johnson Lewis' collection of quotations on about.com)

[The latest trend seems to be, at least with regard to LTBGQ issues, to draft laws that have a ridiculous intent, that then have side-consequences that can be either more absurd or less absurd thanthe intended effects. For example, anti-trans-women laws that would force trans men into women's restrooms and likely make the folks supposedly "protected" even more uncomfortable. (The hugediscomfort and cognitive dissonance thrust upon trans people is, no doubt, intended.]