A San Francisco supervisor is proposing a new law to regulate psychics, fortune tellers, and other soothsayers. I rather like the Old Testament's way of regulating them, but this idea is better than nothing: it's a sort of consumer-protection rule to set some limit on the foolishness of gullible people.
And you might expect ethical, responsible psychics to welcome the idea of strengthening standards in their field, but you would be mistaken:
The San Francisco Yellow Pages list no fewer than 105 psychics, 20 spiritual consultants and 17 astrologers. None of them seemed happy about the proposal."What a rip-off," said Dionysia, Goddess of Light and Direction. "It's just the city, capitalizing on folks trying to make a living. [District Attorney] Terence Hallinan wouldn't know a psychic if it hit him on the head."
