“We should encourage all the people who live here to get all the benefits of living here … and one of those is knowing English.” So said Idaho Representative Mack Shirley upon passage in the House of S. 1172, which will make English the official language of Idaho on July 1, 2007 (assuming, safely, that Butch Otter does not veto the bill). And the Oilers have lost eleven straight games. My street is not burning, though.