Separation of church and state fades into the background in Bay Minette, Alabama. Police Chief Mike Rowland offers those with non-violent misdemeanors an unusual and unconstitutional option to serving time in jail. The scheme is so radical that even conservative Justice Antonin Scalia would condemn the plan for using the threat of penalty to coerce participation in religion.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and pals find the funny side of massive unemployment. In other sleazy news, Joe McGinniss is the biographer who moved next door to the Palins, drawing great protest and unfair flying accusations from the clan. It is only with the simple dumb luck which comes of throwing enough mud at a wall that some will stick, that McGinniss has turned out to be nearly as bad as the Palins claimed.