Today In Comedy With A Happy Ending

Mark Ciavarella, the disgraced judge who ruined the lives of countless young people without due process to stock the detention centers of cronies who paid him huge sums of money, has received a 28-year sentence.   I’m not sure it’s appropriate under the circumstances, but his lawyers decided to try out a new comedy routine:

“The media attention to this matter has exceeded coverage given to many and almost all capital murders, and despite protestation, he will forever be unjustly branded as the ‘Kids for Cash’ judge,” their sentencing memo said.

That word “unjust,” I do not think it means… Anyway, stealing bits from Bernie Maddoff rarely works.