Gov. Perry just signed a bill requiring new massage therapists to get 500 hours of training rather than 300. Crappy massages, you see, are a direr threat than diesel fumes. But I'm not being fair. The need for more training was obvious. Texas and that backwater Delaware were the only states to require less than 500 hundred hours of training (except for the 12 states that don't require any, that is.) It was only a matter of time until we experienced a spate of bad massages.
The massage therapists the Statesman interviewed thought this was a wonderful idea. Big surprise. Who doesn't appreciate a good income-maintenance program?
