Burning platform?

Quote of the day:

We've got a $4 billion hole, and we're spending time on microchips," said Del. Albert C. Pollard Jr. (D). "At least when Nero fiddled, they got good music."

In response to a law that passed the Virginian legislature making it a crime for businesses to implant computer chips in people without their consent because of fears that microchips (and bar codes) "collide with the Book of Revelation."