When I was growing up, people my parents’ age used to say “Don’t make a federal case out of it” as a way of saying “Don’t make this into a big deal when it isn’t.” As in, “Dad, Joey is using my football!” “Don’t make a federal case out of …
The Buddhists sometimes say that “the universe exists in a grain of sand” when explaining the concept of interdependence among all things. It seems the Utah legislature was strikingly Buddhist when drafting the Utah Drug Paraphernalia Act, because the way they defined “paraphernalia” makes paraphernalia exist in all things, too. …
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