31 July—The good news is that The Litchfield Monitor has been screeding—i.e., disquisiting—for four years as of today—what semiliterate media call the four-year anniversary. The bad news is that The Litchfield Monitor will continue to screed—i.e., disquisite—until death, dementia, digital misadventure, or Trump’s flunky-goons do us part.

So the big news is that the latest ploy in the Connecticut Democrat trifecta’s continuing effort to divert attention from its continuing monumental mismanagement of everything and insidious strategy to divest towns of home rule, the Department of Motor Vehicles has begun to issue license plates—commonly known as markers in this forlorn state—touting it as The Pizza State rather than the Constitution State. Neither epithet is truly representative of the state, to be sure.

In fact, both sobriquets can be misleading. Connecticut as The Pizza State? A joke. And who cares anyway? On the other hand, the Connecticut Colony’s Fundamental Orders, adopted in 1639, are not infrequently cited as the first written constitution in the western world. (No, Magna Carta in 1215 wasn’t a constitution.) But the actual State of Connecticut’s first constitution didn’t come about until 1818, well after the U.S. Constitution had been drafted, ratified, and even amended. And Connecticut was only the fifth of the original 13 states to have ratified that one.

More important, of course, it wasn’t until 1974 that Connecticut license plates—commonly known as markers in this forlorn state—were mandated by the General Assembly to identify it as the “Constitution State” (in all caps, of course, with no definite article), at first at the top and lately at the bottom.

“The Pizza State” (in all caps, of course, with the definite article) is at the bottom of the new special license plates—commonly known as markers in this forlorn state. There’s a $65 fee for the pizza plates—commonly known as pizza markers in this forlorn state—which allegedly supports Connecticut Foodshare, according to the legend under the stylized slice of pepperoni pizza at the right of the plates. (The extra fees for all the special plates are supposed to support the specified organizations or causes, but the money amounts to bupkes.)

Perhaps the best thing about Connecticut’s fraudulent Pizza State markers–commonly known as license plates elsewhere–is that they replace the fraudulent Constitution State designation . . .