Priorities-Schmiorities a cultural microcosm

“   Oregon’s state Senate will be conducting a hearing on Tuesday to determine whether the state should be the first in the union to ban non-reusable shopping bags in all retail outlets. -[Oregon state legislature pushes shopping bag ban at start of 2011 session] ” You will not convince me that the 40+ years of environmental religious studies promulgated by liberal educators are not directly involved in our seeming inability to set priorities.  Of all the pressing problems we have, and I assume Oregon has not been magically spared, to make as a priority banning paper shopping bags is, or ought to be. a public outrage.  Instead we get ho-hummary from the peeps. “ The proposal has at least a fighting shot of making it into law, according to Patrick Gleason, the director of state affairs for ATR. The Oregon House of Representatives is split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, and the state Senate has a slight Democratic majority. There you have it.  Like everything else in this rotting culture, this boils down to whether there's enough relative sanity (Republican legislators) to stop the  barbarians (democrats) at the gate.  Sheesh. "Thank you for using reusable bags."