That Dee Cee State O' Mind

George Will reflects my thoughts on Dee Cee statehood exactly:

If majorities in both houses of today's Congress want the fewer than 600,000 residents of D.C. to be fully represented, they can accomplish that with legislation shrinking D.C. to the core containing the major federal buildings and monuments, and giving the rest back to Maryland. Democrats are uninterested in that because it would not serve their primary objective of increasing their Senate seats.

Of course, the major trouble with this is that the new Mur'land residents would also become new Mur'land drivers. And everybody with the least experience of traffic 'round here knows that all Mur'land drivers are, by definition, bat-shite crazy. Not in the uber-aggressive Mel Gibson Road Warrior sense, but more in the completely unpredictable ex- poetry major girlfriend sense. (I've long held the theory that there is some kind of chemical in the plastic covering MDOT-issued drivers' licenses responsible for this behavior.)