Something as indiscreet as straight talk is not encouraged in Olympia, where a tax is invariably called a "revenue plan," and state prisons are crammed with "offenders," not inmates.

Even so, lawmakers have outdone themselves this year in attempting to find a name for a proposed primary election system that's based roughly on Louisiana's version.

It was called the Cajun Primary, until actual Cajuns complained. It was also the Louisiana Primary, until critics began pointing out that Louisiana is perhaps not the best place upon which to model a political system.

Then it was the Top Two, the Two-Forward, the Modified Blanket Primary, the Qualifying Primary, and incredibly, earlier this week, one lawmaker described it as the "Two-Person-Advance Modified Blanket Primary."

Stay tuned...

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