Tossing Coffee In Your Face

Apparently, a New York State Senator is being investigated for throwing coffee in the face of one of her staffers, as well as pulling that staffer's hair. The Albany Times filed a report to that effect on Queens Democrat Senator Ada Smith. The police are investigating.

As you can see from the picture, Senator Smith is not a frail sort, so any kind of tossing and pulling she'd engage in would be done with muscle and weight behind it. Vigor is the word that comes to mind.

Granted, Senator Smith might have had good reason. Perhaps the staffer had set fire to the Senator's cat and the Senator was trying to put out the cat with her coffee and missed? And maybe the Senator pulled on the staffer's hair because she was having a hallucination due to a momentary lack of caffeine (see previous sentence) and thought she was fighting off some kind of snake-wig alien that had attacked her poor staffer? You have to admit that these are possibilities.

Our best and brightest... writing legislation that controls our lives, interpreting the Constitution via the crafting of policy, representing us and tossing coffee around like there's no tomorrow.

Sheesh.