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When the lights go down and the squares leave the House floor and head back home to their second and third spouses, anything can happen in the glimmering dusky lights of Congress as the ghosts of Gerry Studds, Wilbur Mills, and Mark Foley roam the floor looking for action.
In this episode of C-SPAN After Dark, Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) catalogs just about every perversion ever dreamed of by the U.S. Congress. We're not exactly sure if he's reading staff-written research or simply indulging in spontaneous bop prosody, but we're pretty certain that America will never be the same again. Or that HR 1913, a.k.a. the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, never sounded so sweet.
Kids, don't try this at an awards program!
Reason's Jacob Sullum on this bill here.
Back in 1999, Rob Blanchard went to Wyoming in the wake of the brutal killing of Matthew Shepard, the hideous crime that inspired the current law. Blanchard's well-worth-reading story is here.
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Is it just me, or are we getting more re-runs here than on TV land?
from wikipedia:
“He spent ten years as a federal judge (1979-1989), but was impeached and removed from office for corruption and perjury. He is only the sixth federal judge to be impeached and removed from office in American history.”
awesome.
I’m proud to be a Floridian. Altamont Springs is near Taintsville, I believe.
What the Sam Hill is “toucherism,” anyhoo?
And, here I thought that, at midday, Reason had run out of Very Special Ideas and was calling it quits for the day. Yet, this re-run wasn’t the marker I thought it was and I see that they were just using it as an EastCoast LunchTreat.
Could Reason post the VeroniqueDeRugy video again? It was just great.
care for a drink, lonewackoff?
Oh, please, Isaac. Hate crimes laws aren’t about deterrence. They are about revenge/retribution exacted by the newly empowered minority groups working out their historical grievances.
Lester – I’m guessing that toucherism and frotteurism are synonymous.
I fear you’re right, R C.