Legislative futility is costing us all       It is now the time of year when mailboxes start getting stuffed with slick, glossy campaign fliers trumpeting the achievements of candidates for office. "As a member of your Legislature, I fought to end corruption," you might read, or "I worked to get guns off the streets." In political spin, ther... More ... Coda When it comes to new law, less is almost always more GREG BEAN       In "Civil Disobedience," his great work on the duty of all men to rebel against unjust governments, American philosopher and noted recluse Henry David Thoreau said, "I heartily accept the motto - That government is best which governs least. More ...