Africa Asia Australia Business Canada Central Am. What the General Assembly needed this winter was my mother. With Mom in charge, they'd never have skulked out of Richmond without passing a budget. My mother, you see, enforced strict rules about responsibility.
Rules like, no one watches television until their homework is done.
No one goes to the movies until the grass is mowed. No one gets dessert until they eat dinner. Every family has its version of my Uncle Ken. If you don't buckle down soon, you're going to wind up like Uncle Ken, with whiskey on your breath and the cops on your trail. This General Assembly suffers from the same basic problem that bedeviled my poor uncle.