The Californication of Colorado continues apace

Colorado used to be a very free place but the immigration of hundreds of thousands of Californians fleeing the increasingly unlivable Bear Republic has resulted in the importation of the same social disease.  Perhaps we don't need a fence on the southern border but on our western one.

Popehat blogs that Colorado is looking to regulate doll ethnicity (among other things) in child care centers, copying out of the recently proposedColorado Department of Human Services Proposed Child Care Center Rules, which have gotten a certain amount of coverage. From Popehat:

Speaking of toys, maybe your kid isn't Anglo. Mine aren't. Do you care if the child care center has non-white dolls? Would you like to donate (for instance) an Asian doll, like we did, so your kid will have a doll that looks like him or her? Or do you not care? It doesn't matter, your government has regulated doll ethnicity for you:

DOLLS SHALL REPRESENT THREE (3) RACES.

As a redhead, dolls have never looked like me, save for Raggedy Ann and Andy, which someone gave me as a gift when I was little. Somehow, I've survived -- I guess because I didn't know that I was supposed to be disturbed that Barbie was blonde and toasty-tanned (in one version).

I guess I could also have been disturbed that she had a Malibu Dream House when my family lived in a suburban tract home in the Detroit suburbs (perhaps somebody should have mandated that there be a Barbie's Suburban Tract Home).

Even more tragically, the poor dear had a boyfriend with just a flat piece of plastic where his mantool was supposed to be. Alas.

Another point in Colorado's micromanagement attempt is based on bad science, and prohibits whole milk (on the wrong supposition that fat makes people fat, when it's carbohydrates that cause the insulin secretion that put on fat).

And then, there's this. Popehat blogs:

If this level of state control creeps you out, don't worry. The government will never be able to regulate the core of your child-care experience -- the personal relationships you develop with your kids' teachers and child-care workers, relationships that often develop into friendships. The government can't regulate human interaction on that level . . . .

CHILDREN SHOULD BE GREETED INDIVIDUALLY AND PLEASANTLY UPON ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE

If you're a nursery school teacher and we need to legislate that you do this...well, obviously, we also need to write a law that you should continue breathing at all times while the children are present. Just for starters.

via @Overlawyered