Indiana outlaws smiling

It's happened! The inmate at the jail after the bogus NKU arrest who predicted the onset of "anti-smiling laws" was right!

Indiana has now adopted the most stringent rules in America governing photos on driver's licenses and ID cards. Smiling is strictly forbidden. So are eyeglasses, even if you usually wear glasses.

If you think that's bizarre, the reason for it is downright maddening: These guidelines were instituted to make facial recognition software work more easily.

Call me paranoid, but this sounds too much like conservatives' plan of several years ago to collect the DNA of every newborn infant.

Then again, if Mitch Daniels was my governor, I wouldn't be smiling anyway.

However, Indiana wisely allows religious exemptions to the battery of new rules - unlike Florida, which is openly hostile to freedom of religion (at least regarding license photos).

(Source: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20081209/NEWS02/812090395)