New York state assembly takes ‘salty language’ to a whole new level

Via Katherine Mangu-Ward this is probably the silliest thing since they banned smoking in bars:

That’s right, folks, if the assembly has its way it will cost New Yorkers $1,000 a pinch.  Bland food suddenly sounds a whole lot better.

For slightly more sinister legislation we turn to Andrew Sullivan, who gives us one more reason why John McCain and Joe Lieberman should not be trusted with even the smallest smidgeon of power:

The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act of 2010, a legislative monstrosity produced by John McCain and Joe Lieberman, goes further than any Bush-era legislation in abrogating the core principle of Anglo-American justice: that a suspect is innocent until proven guilty. While the bill is deplorable in every detail — it denies terrorist suspects their Miranda rights and codifies indefinite detention without trial — one particular provision effectively ends the presumption of innocence for all of us. That provision codifies the President’s right to define any criteria he chooses to deliver any individual into the legal Twilight Zone defined by the bill.

McCain/Feingold was bad enough.  This is far worse.

What next?  Americans torturing helpless prisoners?

Stranger things have happened….