The Birds told us that there is a time to live, a time to die and a time do other stuff, too.

That’s good advice. There really is a time for everything. Sometimes it’s a good time. Sometimes it’s a bad time.

Take for instance this new Government of the Student Body Constitution. The timing of its completion is good. Students have enjoyed a fairly active political year. Change has been prevalent. And with Veishea upon us, students will be out and about in a lot of places in force, meaning they just might be compelled to vote yea or nay.

The timing for these last-minute complaints about the constitution’s content, however, is bad.

Out of the clear blue sky at Sunday’s Constitutional Convention meeting, GSB senators who had worse attendance than Madonna in church pushed to eliminate specialty seats in the constitution’s draft. There was also sentiment to again change the portion of the constitution that designates the leader of the Senate.

Bad timing. Really bad timing. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad.

We’re just a heartbeat away from voting on this thing. Now is not the time to pipe in with major-issue objections. Now is not the time to debate whole sections or macro-level angles of the document. These issues should have been raised months ago.

It’s not like the constitution was written over night. The convention has been meeting weekly since the beginning of the year. It’s funny that the same delegates who haven’t cared enough to show at most convention meetings are now the ones who have gripes.

The time for gripes was the last time the leaves changed colors.

If anything, delegates should now be debating tiny wording squabbles and running the spell-checker.

That’s what The Birds would be doing.