Sunday, May 08, 2005

You say "to-may-to," I say "partisan politics"

Weirdest story of the day: Whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable has become quite a source of contention in New Jersey and -- surprise, surprise in this day and age -- the issue splits down political party lines.

It seems that Republicans and independents in New Jersey think the tomato is a fruit, and Democrats think it's a vegetable.

The confusion comes because, botanically, it's a fruit. But legally, it's a vegetable, as ruled by the Supreme Court a long time ago when, apparently, they didn't have a lot of other cases on the docket. (It had to do with tariffs.) No doubt this will lead to even more claims of activist judges.

At any rate, you can read the whole story here.

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