So I’m here at home dealing with a viral infection and suffering through children’s programming for my two little ones who are equally stricken. My girls love “Dora, the Explorer.” There’s a recurring character in “Dora,” Swiper the Fox, who as his name implies is a thief. Whenever Swiper appears, however, Dora and the gang have a window of opportunity to shout out “Swiper, no swiping!” which if said in time never fails to foil the attempted theft.
I wish it were that easy here in N.C. I’d volunteer to go down to the General Assembly every morning to chant “Swipers, no swiping!” Sure would beat the heck out of holding hearings after the fact to find out how much our swipers swiped. Plus, just once it’d be nice to hear Speaker Black, Senate Pres pro tem Basnight, and the rest of the legislators exclaim Oh, maaaaan! ? instead of us taxpayers every year.
You mean I could get away with it in Raleigh? Oh, maaaaaan …
