5. The Senate campaign. When the most interesting thing to come out of the campaign for Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat was Republican candidate Scott Brown's happy trail, you know our democracy is in trouble.
The Naked Senate Candidate (NSC) told reporters yesterday that he endorsed the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on terrorism suspects, including waterboarding, which he would know is considered torture by many jurisdictions, is arguably banned by the Geneva Convention, and is prohibited by the U.S. Army Field Manual, had he spent his time at Boston College Law School doing something other than posing nude for magazines. (Yes, yes, as a military lawyer in the Massachusetts National Guard, he should know that anyway, but he served during the Bush Administration, so we thought we'd give him some breathing room. So to speak.)
Brown's opponent, Martha Coakley, like most people who believe that human life is worth more than an old shoe, opposes waterboarding and other forms of torture.
In other NSC news, Brown decried increases in government salaries even as the Herald uncovered thousands of dollars in per diem payments he received as a Massachusetts State Senator.
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