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Does the Constitution Cafe at the federal courthouse...

...serve unpitted or pitted olives? It's an important question. You see, if they serve unpitted olives, people may get hurt:

Dennis Kucinich is suing the Longworth House Office Building cafeteria because of a sandwich.
You want more? The friendly Cleveland congressman filed suit against a number of companies that supply and run the congressional eatery, because in 2008 he bit into a "sandwich wrap" of some kind and hurt his teeth on an olive pit.

According to the suit: "Said sandwich wrap was unwholesome and unfit for human consumption, in that it was represented to contain pitted olives, yet unknown to plaintiff contained an unpitted olive or olives which plaintiff did not reasonably expect to be present in the food prepared for him, and could not visually detect prior to consumption."

Kucinich claims he suffered "serious and permanent dental and oral injuries" and has sustained "other damages as well," including "suffering and loss of enjoyment."

Kucinich seeks $150,000 in damages. Gawker found video of Kucinich talking on the floor of the house five days after Olivegate, and he seems fine, but just as it's inappropriate to suggest that Jay Cutler was faking his injuries because he could briefly ride a bike on the sidelines, we shouldn't assume that Dennis wasn't suffering from an acute loss of enjoyment as he addressed the House.

Oh boy... Maybe this is why Obama hinted at tort reform during the SOTU.

What else do we have this morning?

• Should Justice skip the SOTU? No, says this op-ed.
• How could you think this guy was really an immigration lawyer?
• Some Jon Stewart awesomeness:

  The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
  State of the Union 2011 - Republican Rebuttal
  http://www.thedailyshow.com/
  Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook

Full post as published by Southern District of Florida on January 27, 2011 (boomark / email).