Michael Tomasky: The seathog crisis

Let's start the week out with the really heavy stuff. The WashPost runs today (finally) with something that's been on my mind ever since I moved to this city, and in fact going back to my New York days as well, which is the problem of passengers who take up two seat on a crowded subway or Metro car.

Few things piss me off more. You have 20 or 30 people standing in a car, and there's someone who has sprawled his gangly body across two seats, or has defiantly placed her purse on the seat next...