It was Mark Twain who observed that no one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. Alas, that is more true than ever, especially in Maryland.

If you are of a certain age, you will remember how Justice Potter Stewart immortalized himself in a 1964 SCOTUS decision, when he wrote that while he could not define obscenity, he knew it when he saw it. Such is the lather that the pecksniffs of th