The last day of the Maryland Legislature was yesterday. No more bills. No more voting. Over. But one lasting question lingers: Why does the last day have to “end” at midnight?

If a bill doesn’t get passed by midnight, it’s dead, that’s it. But why can’t that drop-dead time be like 5 pm? They spent 90 days working on stuff. They met over the weekend. They met all day on Monday. What good does that extra 7 hours do? They don’t have a set number of hours to meet, it’s just a span of days. Let’s amend the system.

After all, by the time midnight hits, all of the legislators are tired, and I can attest that the journalists covering the last day are pretty darn spent as well. I also heard one legislator, who is also a doctor, say at about 1 am that he had to be in surgery at 6:30 am. Now I don’t know about you, but I would rather have my doctor out at 5 pm than 1 am the night before being involved in slicing me open. Maybe that’s just me.

In other news, it appears that I have made it into the Boston Globe. Now you won’t see my byline there, or really any mention of my name. BUT there is a reference to an article I wrote two years ago in The Crusader about some shady things going on with the student government elections.