In Michael Gerson's contemptuous, and factually loose, op-ed about what he calls the "Coburn Seven" and our effort to preserve the life-saving success of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), he asks readers to weigh the moral scale between seven United States Senators and 3 million HIV/AIDS infected people, many of whom are frail and malnourished.

What was her name again --  the woman in the pants suit,  running for president?   Never mind.   The business before the house is getting ready for the most rumbustious  race for the presidency since the one we keep hearing about  in those interminable rehashes of  1968.

Sometimes I wonder why anybody bothers to get up in the morning.  What drives them is necessity much of the time: they have to get up to go to the bathroom, or to eat; or to work, in order to eat; or to keep a roof over their miserable heads.  It is the curse of Adam tugging them and me out of bed, plain and simple.  On better mornings, I think maybe there really is a key we should learn about. 

Forget the Oscars, the Emmys, the Grammys, and the Tonys of the entertainment world.  If you ask me, many of the more unusual goings-on in the legal world have proven just as entertaining as some of the shows on television or the movies crowding your local multiplex this year.  I think they deserve some, shall we say, special recognition all their own.