Blue Jersey

A friend makes the point that New Jersey might be trying to wrestle away the most-liberal-state-in-the-nation award from Massachussets. While Mass. moves to ban gay marriage, Jersey recently passed laws supporting civil unions, and now it's debating the abolishment of the death penalty (a subject that's fairly complex, philosophically, in my opinion, though I tend to oppose it for all but the most extreme cases).

Anyway, that's your civics update for today. Meanwhile, in my state this morning, there's a twist on a common story, which is people trying to figure out why NYC smells funny.