January 21, 2025

The quality of legislation passed to deal with a problem is inversely proportional to the volume of media clamor that brought it on.

G. Ray Funkhouser (1938- ), American marketing educator, quoted in The Official Rules by P. Dickson (1978), in The Cynic’s Lexicon, Jonathon Green, ed. (London: 1986), p.78

What was the last example of junk legislation you had a hand in? When did you realize it was defective?

Always a problem in a democracy—when rushing to respond to some demand of the demos (Greek for “the populace”), well-fanned by the media, a terrible piece of legislation gets written, and passed.