Direct, a national website of direct and email advertisers, has got no respect for the Utah Legislature. "Just when you think Utah state legislators might have regained a smidgeon of sanity regarding Internet law, they prove you wrong … oh, so spectacularly wrong."

Ken Magill attacks Utah's ill-conceived Trademark Protection Act, a G-rated Internet bill that promises to return next session and the child-protection do-not-e-mail registry.

Whenever I think of Utah’s state legislature, I envision a room full of Jack-in-the-Boxes straight out of a never-made Twilight Zone episode. Every fall, when it’s time for the next legislative session, their cranks begin to turn, a chorus of “Pop Goes the Weasel” begins, and on the note for “pop” the lids fly open and dozens of psychotic clown heads spring out of the boxes chanting: “New Internet Law! New Internet Law!”

Message to Utah’s voters: Would you please find a way to put the heads of your psychotic-clown lawmakers back into their boxes?

As much as Utahns mistrust their legislature, I'm not sure they are going to take the advice of the people who make their lives hell with spam and junk mail.