Every state legislature has its share of windbags. Once, in the Massachusetts legislature, a colleague with the following story admonished a run-off-at-the-mouth senator:

Said the senator: "A young man was walking across Boston Common, eating a baloney sandwich. A piece of the baloney fell from the sandwich and was immediately pounced upon by a robin. It was early morning and the robin was pleased that it had become filled with food so early and would not need to scrounge the rest of the day.

"So the robin started to sing with joy. This brought a neighboring cat upon the scene, which pounced upon the singing bird and ate it.

"That's the end of the story," said the senator as he looked across the chamber at the windbag, "except for the moral, which is: never open your mouth when you are full of baloney."