Passports for internal travel?????

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. Apparently here in New Mexico the people at the DMV are being

very hard-assed about what is and isn't allowable.

One problem about the documents showing residency is that if someone does all of their bill paying on line, they don't get something mailed to their address. A real problem with younger people. Or, if a young person still lives at home, they aren't getting bills mailed to them. So it's a pretty stupid system.

On the other hand, aren't we all grateful to know we can buy guns without a background check?

Oh, and I will NEVER use my Social Security card as ID. In fact, my SS card states very clearly that it is not to be used for identification. I got that card in 1964, and some time in the years afterwards that little notice disappeared. It should not have. The SS card is strictly for Social Security, not for anything else.

I have on occasion lived in a state or attended a University that wanted to use the SS number as their ID. No. No way. Never. They get to issue me some other number.

Anyway, New Mexico seems to make it exceptionally difficult to renew a driver's license, whether one that is Real ID compliant or one that simply gives permission to legally drive a car. As I mentioned above, it's not always feasible to get a whole lot of stupid documentation that was never needed before. And it's not as though a lot of hijackers are booking flights and then commandeering them. Sort of like maybe one in 10 billion votes cast is done fraudulently. So there is zero need for a lot of proof of identity at a polling place.

But, it's still awfully easy to buy a gun. Doesn't that make us all feel warm and fuzzy?

We are due for another school shooting this coming week. If I were a whole lot more cynical than I already am, I'd start a pool of some kind. Pick the state, pick the city or county in that state. And another pool for number killed, number wounded. Actually, I am that cynical I just don't know how to set up such a pool.