Crooks and Liars has a post up about a great Daily Show clip featuring a state legislator who wants to prevent school shootings by arming the teachers, and a school administrator in Oklahoma who wants to give the kids Kevlar book covers.  On viewing it, my first thought was “Hey, that’s the Wisconsin TABOR guy on TV.”  That’s because Rep. Frank Lasee is one of Wisconsin’s most ardent supporters of my least favorite tax policy.   And now, it turns out, of my least favorite school safety policy. I know there's a punch line there somewhere, and I am pained that I can't quite find it, but the Stewart clip is more than funny enough by itself. 

This, by the way, is an example of what’s called “the garbage pail” theory of public policy.  There are policy solutions that just hang around and eventually find a policy problem they match up with.  The first time I heard about this policy concept was in an episode from All in the Family, back in the 1970s, when Archie Bunker wanted to solve the rash of skyjackings by arming all the passengers on every flight.