Is California a nanny state run amuck?

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[–]Nemacolin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no". It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines

[–]mikipika 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

To be fair, there was once a silly rule about not ending a sentence with a preposition. So there are exceptions to rules, yes?

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

“This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.”

—Churchill (supposedly)