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Hunkering down: There ought to be a law

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[June 29, 2013]  There were several of us last Saturday out behind the sale barn. We never buy anything. This is just a way to scratch our agricultural itch.

So while others were headed to the sale barn coffee shop, the members of the world dilemma think tank stepped out back, coagulatingly, for some geezer bonding.

Doc looked around, picked up a blade of grass for his teeth, picked up a doodling stick and turned around slowly while searching for just the right place.

Hunker time.

We stuck grass blades in our teeth and waited for the philosophy to begin.

Doc went into a knee-aching hunker, and we groaned and followed suit. He doodled in the dirt with the stick, and we looked and couldn't make heads or tails of it, but then, we're not supposed to. It's just a hunker thing.

"Been thinking," Doc finally said. "I think country folks can really make a contribution to the well-being of life in the United States of America." He waited. We mumbled interest. He continued.

"It's the hunker," he said. "We know how important it is to hunker, as we are now doing, right?"

"Right."

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"When we hunker, we're focusing on getting the ideas boiled down to essentials because it's uncomfortable and we don't want to be too long doing it, right?"

"Right."

"So what if Congress was only allowed to consider new laws while in a hunker, but could repeal old, silly laws from the comfort of a chair?"

Steve groaned and said, "You may have something there, Doc."

Doc grinned. "And the other thing is, the older you get, the more your knees hurt in a hunker. This could pare down the consideration time a whole bunch with at least half the members of the Senate, and the only laws they'd pass are the ones we'd really need."

"One thing, Doc," said Herb, going to all fours and then standing up slowly and painfully.

"Don't you need some politician to introduce the Hunker Law?"

"I never said the idea was perfect, Herb."

[Text from file received from Slim Randles]

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