What if the legislative process were always this speedy? All muffins baked in a certain unnamed city must now have at least 18 percent “non-dough content,” ensuring that each customer’s blueberry muffin is as juicy as the one in the display case. And it all happened because of “one bad catered brunch meeting” at City Hall:

Reports from various Council members are conflicting about the precise quality of the muffins at the meeting, but one Member claimed to have eaten a chocolate chip muffin with “one single [expletive] chip.” The Council scheduled an unprecedented lunchtime session afterward, where the muffin law was written, briefly discussed, and passed in less than twenty minutes. “It was a hasty, angry process,” concludes [Edward Swarthmore, head of a local bakers’ assiociation].

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