Regulate The Assault Batteries

Some are suggesting that disposable batteries -- a pollutant of sorts -- and no matter how efficient, should be considered a controlled substance and, as such, should be sold under the same restrictions as prescription drugs or guns.

Right. First off, there is no market for used batteries that I'm aware of. Secondly, and thankfully, you are still able to buy and sell guns among law abiding individuals in private transactions. I don't think there would be such a battery market.

h/t to Instapundit

Hypocrisy, Part II

"What interests me is that a lot of people who frown on cigars and go ballistic if anyone lights up a cigarette near them have no problem smoking pot themselves or being around others who do. Will this lead them to:

"1. Now react violently to the threat of second-hand pot smoke the way they do
cigarette smoke? . . . "

Jeff Soyer points out that the people who would enjoy regulating EVERY LAST THING you do have a new weapon in their rhetoric. And those who enjoy some "herb" from time to time (Notice, I do not partake) now would find themselves between the proverbial rock and a hard place.

Personally, I don't really care whether pot is a cancer risk. The potential hypocrisy of it all is what intrigues me.