The Christian Science Monitor reports that in North Carolina, Catawba County Republican Senator Austin Allran is up in arms because some state workers are playing computer Solitaire on company time.

Was the 10-term Senator genuinely surprised to learn that state bureaucrats are not a bunch of workaholics? Jeez, anyone who has ever gotten their driver's license renewed already had that one figured out.

In any case, Senator Allran is sponsoring legislation to uninstall Solitaire from state computers. How many staff hours of North Carolina's tech support personnel will be expended removing a program that ships with every single Windows PC?

On the other hand, it's reassuring to know that all of the really serious problems in North Carolina have been solved. Health care, poverty, crime...apparently they are no longer of concern if Senator Allran has time to worry about legislating Solitaire.