Dude, I’m like, totally with you now

I confess. I haven’t paid enough attention to the new, misguided “AB5” law in California, that would force companies to treat hundreds of thousands of independent contractors as employees.

There were three reasons:

• First, I assumed California would work it out and fix the law.

• If not, well, I haven’t lived in California since 2002, so it doesn’t apply to m…