Penalty Kick

Philip Weiss offers this strange aside on the Scooter Libby sentence:

Pat Buchanan believes the huge sentence to be "punitive." I agree.

Well, hell. The whole fucking penal code is full of punishments. The word penal may be your first hint. Were you hoping he'd get a side-by-side refrigerator and a year's supply of Rice-a-Roni?

But Weiss makes up for it with this post.