{"id":95,"date":"2007-04-20T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/bully-for-michigan\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T10:05:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T15:05:23","slug":"bully-for-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Bully for Michigan!&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"GRBJ0595.gif\" alt=\"GRBJ0595.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/images\/grbj\/GRBJ0595.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, April 9, 2007<\/p>\n<p>The state legislator in Lansing was putting together an &#8220;anti-bullying&#8221; bill for schools a couple of weeks ago. One of those things where I think hearts were in the right place, but minds&#8230; maybe not. It&#8217;s just difficult to enforce, and it adds more paperwork and more potential bureaucracy to already overworked educators.<\/p>\n<p>It got me to thinking that the legislators were playing a bit of a bullying role. So I went with pretty much the first thing that hit my mind, and it turned into an okay comic. It looks nice. It&#8217;s very readable. Nice and short.<\/p>\n<p>But, alas, just as I was literally putting the last ink down, I thought of a much better idea. It would have had legislator-looking people (men and women) in their suits and briefcases beating the crap out of city and county government people, saying stuff like, &#8220;I balanced my budget, you make the cuts, bitch!&#8221; and &#8220;You take the paperwork, I&#8217;ll take your lunch money, dork!&#8221; Lansing Bullies.<\/p>\n<p>I hate it when that happens&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, April 9, 2007 The state legislator in Lansing was putting together an &#8220;anti-bullying&#8221; bill for schools a couple of weeks ago. One of those things where I think hearts were in the right place, but minds&#8230; maybe not. It&#8217;s just difficult to enforce, and it adds more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}