We understand that Phil King has instructed the State Affairs committee that he is ready to have his heineously mean parental consent bill voted out of committee this week. We've seen a committee substitute that he's come up with since the marathon hearing on 4/13-14 and it leaves those abused kids SOL. Orphans, likewise. So call your rep, if he or she is on the committee (you know who you are, District 134 constituents) and tell them to reject HB 1212.

Oh yes, and call your friends who are judges and tell them to get ready to be forced to decide whether "the abortion would be in the best interest of the minor" with the Republican party looking over their shoulder when the first Open Records Act request is filed to find out how well they toted the party line.

This legislative session ought to be renamed the Passion of the Idealogues. We haven't seen anything this graphic since the Jews killed Jesus in Mel's movie last year.