According to an article in today's paper, "Florida's lawmakers couldn't reach agreement Tuesday on how to fight terrorists or stimulate the economy, but they made sure Floridians can buy patriotic license plates."

Oh, but Floridians love their license plates! We've got "Save the Manatee" plates. We've got "Protect the Florida Panther" plates. We've got plates for the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Orlando Magic, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Buccaneers. We've got plates for USF, FSU and U of F. There's a plate for the Olympics, and one for the Special Olympics. There's a pro-life plate (but none for pro-choice). There are plates for the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, and even the Marine Corps. We've got plates for education, plates for the arts, plates for the Challenger that blew itself apart. Some people think it's great, but I don't exaggerate when I say we have more plates than the nation has states!

And those are just the specialty plates! We've also got green letters superimposed on an orange Florida, orange letters over a green Florida, and a plate with what I think is supposed to be an orange, but looks more like the Georgia Peach.

And now -- aren't we lucky? -- we'll have two more! We don't have a plan to pull us out of this recession or lure back the tourists, but by God, we can at least have our choice of patriotic license plates!

Smegging morons.