Bernie Sanders has Highlights from Bernie’s Western Swing on his web site.  There are a lot of interesting picture, videos, and text there.  You ought to follow the previous link if you are interested.

I have picked from the site one of the most fantastic videos I have seen so far about why we need Bernie Sanders as our President.  If you haven’t seen this video, you probably don’t know all of what you are going to get if you elect Bernie Sanders.  I didn’t know the full picture myself, even though I am a huge fan of Bernie Sanders and his run for the Presidency should he decide to do so.

Bernie films an episode of Overheard with Evan Smith for PBS in Austin, Texas.- Thursday, April 2

This interview and Q & A session is about 1 hour long. Whatever amount of time you can devote to this will be well worth your while.

The Rachel Maddow Show blog has the story Cruz abandons subtlety with theocentric pitch.

It stands to reason that far-right candidates running in a crowded GOP field are going to take every opportunity to appeal to far-right social conservatives, but if Cruz’s over-the-top commercial is the opening salvo, I shudder to think just how theocratic Republican messaging will become by, say, October, with several candidates trying to outdo each other.

I added the comment:

Instead of calling them “far-right social conservatives”, why not just call them what they are, “the American Taliban”?

Another comment started with:

Well, now the christianists have someone they can rally around and present a united front.

Some people worry about the imposition of Sharia law in the USA, see my previous post Mayor takes stand against Muslim Shariah courts.  I am not worried that some people in the US would voluntarily submit to arbitration before a panel of Muslims or a panel of Jews, or even a panel of Priests.  I am worried about having mandatory Christianist law in the USA.

CBS Local has the story New Mass. Law: Turn On Headlights When Using Wipers.

Starting Tuesday, motorists will have to use their headlights “when the vehicle’s windshield wipers are needed.”

In case you missed the link above,  here is the link to the law AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE USE OF HEADLIGHTS.

…headlights and taillights shall be turned on by the vehicle operator at all other times when, due to insufficient light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions, visibility is reduced such that persons or vehicles on the roadway are not clearly discernible at a distance of 500 feet or when the vehicle’s windshield wipers are needed;…

Now here is a law that probably sounded like a good idea at the time, and not a moment’s more thought was given to it. When you turn on the windshield washers to clear away some dirt, must you first turn on your headlights?

If, on a clear, sunny day, a truck drives by and splatters your windshield so that you cannot see where you are going, do you wash the windshield first so you don’t run over a pedestrian, or do you turn on tour headlights first so you don’t violate the law? What about birds splattering your windshield obstructing your view.

Actually, if you look at the words in the law that I bolded above, this law applies when the windshield wipers are needed.  If you need your windshield wipers, but fail to turn them and your headlight on, you are still in violation of the law.

Do our legislators live in the same world we do?

Then there is the issue of daytime running light.  Most modern cars will automatically turn on the daytime running lights (drl on my Toyota) if the ignition is on. My car automatically switches to headlights if there is not enough ambient light.  You do have an option to turn off this feature and  run with no lights, which most people seem to do.  For those of us who understand why there is this drl feature in the first place, are we now violating the law if we do not override the drl option and turn on the headlights when we turn on the windshield wipers.  I wonder if our amazing legislature thought to coordinate with the car manufacturers before they came up with this change in the law.