Connecticut, the Nutmeg State, is so called because of the charming habit of Yankee pedlars of selling wooden nutmegs to the housewives. They're just as hard, much cheaper wholesale, and she won't be able to tell she's been had until she works at it for long enough for the pedlar to be in the next township.

Joseph L. Lieberman is loyally carrying on this tradition: barely a month after the Democrats gave him back his committee assignments, he is busy writing "consensus" articles, like this one, with the late Republican candidate, and the torture fan from South Carolina.