Harsh Punishment, Virginia-Style

"Party Host Mom Set for Va. Jail Term; Alcohol at Son's 16th Gets 27-Month Sentence" [Emphasis mine.] Here via Huffington Post. Sounds like something that would happen in Saudi Arabia.

Virginia sucks these days. I went to college there for two years when the state motto was "Virginia is for lovers." (I'm part Virginian from way back and still have cousins there.) Now it seems to be for haters (including gay-haters). Once a great bastion of American democracy--where reason and enlightenment prevailed--Virginia seems to have lost its way in the dark. Too bad for the birthplace of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson et al. Given its history, Virginia should be one of the most progressive places in the U.S. Instead it's one of the least.