#529 Richard DeBacle

Had a friend in college.
He was a bathroom philosopher. Had a pocketful of wisdom, but only when he wasn’t actually sporting pockets. Could only wax philosophic in a wet towel while shaving.
Must have been using Occam’s razor.
One day he comes into the can, proceeds to shave, and spouts this out like foam. “Sometimes you can’t go wrong. Sometimes you can’t win for losing. But it all evens out in the end.”
Words to live by.
Sometimes you can’t win for losing. That’s how House Minority Leader Richard DeBolt must have felt recently.
Seems the legislator flipped his truck and hit two other cars.
Not good.
Especially not good when you’re a state representative. Making laws and stuff. People just kind of naturally expect that, um, if you’re making laws you sort of, kind of, understand them. Like, you know, whether to stop at a stop sign or not.
Apparently not Mr. DeBolt.
When people are legislators do you still call them “mister”?
We are woefully short of honorifics in our language. Doctors you call doctor, but doctors of philosophy you call professor, and lawyers you just don’t call for dinner. It doesn’t seem right.
Lawyers go through a heck of a lot of school too. But can you call them Lawyer Jones? No, but Doctor Jones is perfectly appropriate.
Where was I? Oh yeah. Legislator DeBolt. He was cited for his malfeasance. Or is that pronounced mall-feasance?
No, that’s when a shopping center is built without the proper permits.
Lej-man DeBolt was cited for failing to stop.
Well, yeah. Flipping over and hitting two cars could be interpreted as a failure to stop.
Although, technically, he did eventually stop.
And hey. I think the public would have understood. His cellphone wasn’t in his hand by the time the police arrived so that most likely wasn’t the cause of his missing a stop sign, flipping over, and wiping out two cars on the way to his technical stoppage.
What was embarrassing was he was also cited for expired tabs.
And cheap Eyman tabs at that.
Youch. I’m guessing that coveted transportation committee assignment is a lot further down the road.
America ya gotta love it