S**t (Indian) Politicians Say...

Jagmeet Singh, a follower of the Sikh religion and the newly appointed leader of the NDP, said "Fundamentally, we can't have the state telling people what to wear, what not to wear." Singh is responding to a recently approved Quebec law that would require citizens of this Canadian province to uncover their faces while giving or receiving public services.  But that isn't strictly true, is it? The 'state' often does tell people what to wear: it tells soldiers, police officers, and judges, for example. Construction workers have to wear hard hats, we all have to wear seatbelts.   More importantly, we all have to wear something . Nudity is not an option on the streets, on the bus, in the classroom, at the government office you go to the get your passport or your driver's license. It's interesting how things which seem to be diametrically opposite to each other share a number of qualities. Zero and infinity, for example, behave similarly when multi...