In a moment of madness so inspired that only bureaucrats could dream it up, San Francisco is going to require fortune-tellers to pay a fee ($357), post a rate schedule, get fingerprinted and offer customers a receipt for their services.

The Supervisor responsible, Mr. Aaron Peskin, describes this measure as “consumer fraud protection.” Really? Is Peskin trying to claim that some fortune-tellers are not frauds?

One other aspect of this saga to savor – the manipulation of PC sensitivities by certain members of the “Romany community,” which, the writer of this piece somewhat primly notes, “some [the boors!] refer to as Gypsies.” One Gypsy has even gone so far as to say that passing the proposed legislation “will be just like what Hitler did to us.”

What a load of (crystal) balls.

Via blogger Amy Phillips.