South Carolina Republican State Representative (Shiver!) Mike Pitts has himself a dandy idea.

We need to register journalists, not firearms.

And he’s perfectly serious.

State Rep. Mike Pitts, R-Laurens, on Tuesday introduced a bill called the “South Carolina Responsible Journalism Registry Law.”

The bill would create requirements for people wanting to work as a journalist for a media outlet, and also before that outlet could hire anyone for a reporting position.

Pitts told The Post and Courier his bill is not a reaction to any news story featuring him and that he is “not a press hater.” Rather, it’s to stimulate discussion over how he sees Second Amendment rights being treated by the printed press and television news.

There ya go.

Pitts says the press is “demonizing” firearms.  So his solution is to protect the second amendment by destroying the first amendment.

Under the bill, the Secretary of State’s Office would be tasked with keeping a “responsible journalism registry” and creating the criteria with the help of a panel on what qualifies a person as a journalist — similar to doctors and lawyers, Pitts said.

Whoa, cowboy.  Government does not regulate who can be a lawyer or a doctor; their own regulatory bodies to that.  So having government regulate who can be a journalist seems a little … I dunno … indamnsane.

“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”

That seems pretty easy to understand.

To be honest, Wild Mike knows this will never pass.  He just wanted to make “a statement.”  And that statement is, “I am an idiot.”

Okay, so here’s Jeb!, the Republican, and he has this teen sex thing all figured out.

One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame. Many of these young women and young men look around and see their friends engaged in the same irresponsible conduct. Their parents and neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of ridicule to this behavior.

You mean like Sarah Palin and Bristol?

Goodness sake, I haven’t heard that argument since Dan Quayle tried it against Murphy Brown.  It didn’t work then and it probably won’t work now.

Yeah, what this country needs is more shaming girls.  And children.  Those illegitimate children need to be rounded-up and have a Bush finger shook in their little faces.  Maybe Jeb! could hire his brother to do the little “tsk, tsk” thing.  I mean, face it, he’s had lots of experience with ridicule.

I guess sex education and the availability of contraceptives are second rate compared to public humiliation, or Jeb! would have suggested that.

Thanks to Rocky for the heads up.

Okay, so last year was the hottest year in recorded history.

Scientists reported Wednesday that 2015 was the hottest year in recorded history by far, breaking a record set only the year before — a burst of heat that has continued into the new year and is roiling weather patterns all over the world.

This explains a whole bunch of crazy stuff that went on last year.  People get too hot, they do crazy crap.

However, it does not even come close to covering Sarah Palin’s endorsement speech for Donald Trump.

Holy Sweet Mother of Thesaurus Manuals.  That was one crazy speech.  I heard someone call it “word salad.”  I disagree.  Salads are good.  This speech was not.  This speech meandered over to the rejected appetizer table and selected cabbage in a beet fondue with broccoli bits scattered around.

The New York Times tried to figure it out with the The Most Mystifying Lines.  ABC News called it Memorable Lines.  The Guardian does it as only the British can —

The New Republic calls it a “bonkers speech,” and actually starts feeling a bit sorry for her.

My favorite part, of course, was her dress.  It was pure Las Vegas, or maybe biker chick, I dunno.  It definitely was not take-me-seriously wear.

This is gonna be fun so get yourself prepared for a great time.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

I rarely talk about my personal life here except, of course, that I have the damn cutest grandson ever, but I guess I need to let you know why I have been awol for a while.

My Bubba is running for re-election as Democratic County Chair.  He’s having to campaign hard because Democrats will vote for a woman over a man almost every time and his opponent is female.  She’s also a minority in a race that will be decided by minorities because that’s where there are other contested primaries.

The good news is that he’s been endorsed by every Democratic elected official in the entire county, about 95% of precinct chairs, and labor.  However, there are about 40,000 people who will vote without knowing anything about this race or having any idea what a party chairman does.  His opponent is completely unqualified for the job but she and her friends are on the phone day and night spreading false rumors about Don.

I love this man and I have loved him for 46 years, so I have been helping him day and night.  Early voting starts the middle of next month and March 1 is election day.  So, don’t expect a lot of work out of me during this time.  Forgive me if I just put up a topic and leave y’all to discuss it.

If you know any Democrats in my county, ask them to vote March 1st for my Bubba – Don Bankston for Democratic Party Chair.

Thank you, guys.

Okay, so Republicans in Washington State appointed a woman to fill the seat of a Republican in the state legislature who had to step down over ethics charges.

Come to find out, the woman they appointed is plenty enough weird.

While visiting lawmakers’ offices in Olympia with representatives from Planned Parenthood during Teen Lobbying Days, the group of Eastern Washington teens were stunned when State Rep. Mary Dye (R-Pomeroy) quizzed them over whether they had ever had sex.

Rachel Todd, a Planned Parenthood worker accompanying the kids, said that Dye asked them if they were virgins and indicated that one of them might not be.

“After she made the statement about virginity, all of my teens looked at me,” said Todd. “And I said, ‘You don’t have to answer that. You don’t have to answer that.’”

So what was she planning on doing with the virgins?  Sacrificing them to the Gun Gods?  Maybe giving Donald Trump their names for future wives?

Sarah Palin just endorsed Donald Trump.

That’s all I can say.

Seriously.