The $217,000 misdemeanor

Back in 2007, America was briefly distracted by the toilet habits of a senator from Idaho.  I am writing, of course, about Senator Larry Craig.  As Fox News points out, Mr. Craig introduced us all to the phrase "wide stance."

Evidence suggests that slapping children does not quiet them down.

On occasion we are led to believe that there was a time when flying was a glamorous way to travel.  While I am not sure that time ever existed, if it did that time is gone.  Exhibit A in support of the fact that flying has gone from glamorous to brutal might be the case of Joe Rickey Hundley.

The range of negotiations.

The Associated Press and the ABA Law Journal have the story of an unusual order to mediate.  Judge Stephen Dunn, an Idaho state court judge, has ordered that the prosecution and the defendant to mediate a death penalty case.