Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...

From the Alabama legislators who brought you a constitutional amendment to ban something that's already illegal and a law that says they can't pass a law comes a bill that would impose the death penalty on murderers who kill with a federally banned assault weapon, except that no such ban exists because Congress allowed it to lapse last year.

Seriously, folks, stop passing ineffectual laws and start doing stuff that has a meaningful, positive impact on people's lives, like stabilizing our education funding sources, or easing the burden on our overcrowded prisons, or naming an official state groundhog.

I nominate Birmingham Bill.