In what were the final few days of legislating before a long, slow summer off, the Ohio General Assembly was in a frenzy last week, passing measures, big and small, that should have been resolved long ago.
Still, as a pure study of human nature, there’s nothing like watching the legislature try to squeeze what should have been six months of lawmaking into a frantic late-June marathon. People have sometimes likened the “process” to sausage-making. That’s grossly unfair to sausage-makers, whose products, unlike the legislature’s, must at least pass inspection.