Your - well, New Mexicans' - tax dollars at work.

Citizens of New Mexico are doubtless proud to know that their legislature is considering the "Right to Eat Enchiladas Act". This is not to say that there are a lot of modern-day Carrie Nations running around New Mexico, trying to prevent people from eating enchiladas. Still, what better time to protect a cherished right than when it is not in the least bit endangered?

If you go the boring route - and that would be me - and actually read the proposed legislation, you'd find that this is a bill not unlike those introduced in perhaps half of the states since October, and passed in 10 or 15, which limit the liability of manufacturers and fast-food chains from "frivolous" lawsuits by those who claim their health problems stem from eating at the above-mentioned restaurants and fast-food outlets. (See, for instance, Super Size Me.)

So, disappointingly, it turns out that New Mexico legislators are not going to go out and stand behind you when you order enchiladas at your local Outback Steakhouse. And the better name of the act would be the "Right to Sell Enchiladas Act".