Getting overly possessive

Heads up, scribes and spectators, the whole "nonbinding resolution" thing has officially become cliched:

[Arkansas state Rep. Steve] Harrelson filed a resolution Tuesday to declare the correct possessive form of the state as "Arkansas's." The resolution carries no legal weight, Harrelson acknowledged, but said a family friend who works as a historian asked him to carry the grammar fight to the floor.

Now, I enjoy a good grammatical fracas as much as the next girl, but on a historical page on which there are so many question marks, the Iraq war is "just a comma" to its commander in chief and so much is hedged in quotes and etched between the lines, why exactly are lawmakers expending time and energy sanctioning the (merely suggested) use of aesthetically apocryphal apostrophes?

A small note of comfort for those beholden not just to punctuational brevity, but to freedom itself: "The non-binding resolution would not affect Arkansans' use of apostrophes in Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts or neighboring Texas."

Indeed, that's when we'd know the terrorists had won.