Modern legislation should be written with a fountain pen.
This is a short post. It is an homage to the way things used to be written.
This country's founding documents were short, concise and profound. And I think we should consider having all modern legislation crafted with fountain pen, or the dip pen. You tend to think more carefully when your words are written with a sense of permanence. With a real sense of purpose.
Seems to me that the word processor has led to confusion, endless revision and infinite legal disclaimers. The health care legislation is what, over 1500 pages? Health reform should be a lot easier to digest than tort reform.
Legislators shouldn't write or act or attempt to govern like attorneys, piling stipulations on top of stipulations. Adding exemptions and qualifiers and signing statements and waivers and see 300 page rider riders and restrictions and other utter nonsense.
Things should be simpler to understand. Maybe we have to take a lesson from the founding fathers. Things should be written with the same sense of importance and landmark significance as they were when the Declaration of Independence was crafted. Or the Bill of Rights.
When, exactly, did we embrace such complexity, anyway? Think about the last 30,000 years. Seems that somewhere between cave paintings and congressional legislation, man lost the ability to communicate.
Well, we need to get that back if humanity is to survive.
The President will sign legislation with a fountain pen.
Imagine if what he was signing was written that way.
This country's founding documents were short, concise and profound. And I think we should consider having all modern legislation crafted with fountain pen, or the dip pen. You tend to think more carefully when your words are written with a sense of permanence. With a real sense of purpose.
Seems to me that the word processor has led to confusion, endless revision and infinite legal disclaimers. The health care legislation is what, over 1500 pages? Health reform should be a lot easier to digest than tort reform.
Legislators shouldn't write or act or attempt to govern like attorneys, piling stipulations on top of stipulations. Adding exemptions and qualifiers and signing statements and waivers and see 300 page rider riders and restrictions and other utter nonsense.
Things should be simpler to understand. Maybe we have to take a lesson from the founding fathers. Things should be written with the same sense of importance and landmark significance as they were when the Declaration of Independence was crafted. Or the Bill of Rights.
When, exactly, did we embrace such complexity, anyway? Think about the last 30,000 years. Seems that somewhere between cave paintings and congressional legislation, man lost the ability to communicate.
Well, we need to get that back if humanity is to survive.
The President will sign legislation with a fountain pen.
Imagine if what he was signing was written that way.
