Hitchens takes on Bloomberg and his stupid enforcement of petty laws:

Hitchens writes: "The law these days . . . states that New York City is now the domain of the mediocre bureaucrat, of the inspector with too much time on his hands, of the anal-retentive cop with his nose in a rule book, of the snitch willing to drop a dime on a harmless fellow citizen, and of a mayor who is that most pathetic and annoying figure - the micro-megalomaniac.

"Who knows what goes on in the tiny, constipated chambers of [Bloomberg's] mind? All we know . . . is that one of the world's most broad-minded and open cities is now in the hands of a picknose control freak."

Bloomberg is by far the most intrusive government official in office today, although I'm short the whacko lefties would disagree.