Posted on 07/05/2005 7:28:32 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
Growing up in my part of New York, you went to one of two barbers. Mr. McDougal was the old guy who gave you a slick crew cut when you were 7, parted on the side, and sent you out the door with a lollypop and a pat on the butt.
When you got older, if you were cool, you went to Tony Palermo. He was a hip young neighborhood guy who picked up hair-cutting who knows where. Even though we were only 11 or 12, he'd let us look at his Playboys while he cut hair in his living room. You could always tell if someone had just gotten their hair cut at Tony's because he only knew one style: parted down the middle with a poofy blow dry on each side, a la the Bee Gees.
I tell the story of Palermo because it's pertinent to the state government shutdown (trust me, I'll get there). A June 26 Pioneer Press story featured state employees fretting that no one would notice if parts of the government shut down. "What if they closed state government and no one cared?" the story asked.
It went on to detail a number of state agencies that worried they wouldn't be missed and listed a Web site, www.doer.state.mn. us, where you'll find a list of the state agencies that mostly waste your tax dollars. Among them — tah-dah! — the Barbers and Cosmetology Examiners Board.
Have we really let government get so out of control we now have a state agency to tell us whether or not we're getting a good haircut?
(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...
Can't wait to hear AFSME members gone wild in the letters to the editor tommorow. Yost better get a permit to carry.
Meanwhile, xrp has been minding the net nanny store making sure that he reads every post on Free Republic so that he can finally post his clever Kung Fu / Grasshopper picture when he catches a duplicate.
Would that all of our lives were so full of meaning ...
and I won't be happy until I get an elected deomoncrap to bite my toenails
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