Plus Burke, Hayek, Freud, Lord Tennyson, the Scopes monkey trial, Copernicus, Walt Whitman, Marx, the snail darter, and to top it all off climate change. Only Will could string these together here and get his licks in on Congress.
He concludes by quoting columnist Ed Yoder’s comment on the Tennessee monkey law and the endangered species act
“Both measures involve legislative interposition in the realm of
biological change; and which will have involved the greater hubris is
yet to be seen. Tennessee’s ambitions were comparatively modest. It
sought only to conceal the disturbing evidence of natural selection
from impressionable school children. The Congress of the United States,
one is intrigued to learn, intends to stop the nasty business in its
tracks.”
Having accomplished that, it should be child’s play for
Congress to make the climate behave. Pick your own meaning of “child’s
play.”
