All eyes are on the big pond in Charleston this month where lawmakers gather to decide the fate of West Virginia. If that doesn't give you warts just thinking about it, nothing will. Well, for the first month, not much. The 60-day session is 30 days too long.
Most folks know that.
So the lawmakers spend about 30 days wandering aimlessly in the halls looking for shiny objects. Well, that's what the legislative primates do. They find a topic early in the session they can spend their time talking about. But they have no intention of doing anything about it. In fact, the leadership often throws a shiny object to them so the powers that be can plot the strategy of the session without the lesser primates interfering.