When you are involved in a motorbike accident, and it emerges that you had a young lady passenger who was not your wife, but you arranged for that material information to be covered up, you are either going to end up in a heap of personal hurt, or professional hurt, possibly both. In the case of Bobby Petrino, it's both.
Marine Lt. Gary Stein's hearing has ended with a recommendation to the chain of command that he be dismissed from the Marines. Further evidence emerged during the hearing confirming that Stein is a childish douchebag - superimposing puerile and racist slogans on pictures of the President is the sort of thing that most people grow out of by their junior year in high school. If the recommendation for his dismissal is upheld, the time may be right for an appeal on the grounds that the UCMJ unfairly restricts free speech, although, given the deference that just about everybody in government and the judicial branch has for the military in the USA, I am not optimistic that any appeal will be successful. There is a clear and compelling case for restricting what military personnel can say in any public forum, lest they reveal operational or classified information, and the challenge is defining the limits to be placed on service personnel when communicating on their own time.
The abuse of the US legislative branch by would-be lawyers continues - a complaint has been filed in California seeking to overturn the rejection of a lady named Peta Lindsay, representing the Peace & Freedom party, for a place on the Presidential election ballot. The complaint is here. The bizarre thing about all of this is that Lindsay does not reach 35 years of age until 2019, and the Constitution clearly states that any candidate must be a minimum of 35 years of age...the complaint is a legally incoherent rant, the only thing missing from it are crayon marks.
Mississippi law may force the state's only abortion clinic to close, but elected representative Dean Kirby actually offered this as one justification for the bill:

"That's what we're trying to stop here, the coat-hanger abortions," Kirby replied, in reference to the abortions provided at the clinic in Jackson. "The purpose of this bill is to stop back-room abortions."

I will leave you to read this and consider whether Rep. Kirby is merely a bloviating political posturer, or whether he actually believes what is quoted there. If it is the latter, then he is a total f**king idiot.
Accountability in most of the USA is on life support a lot of the time these days (remember the infamous phrase "mistakes were made" after 9/11?). In Wisconsin, after two utter cock-ups in election administration, the Waukesha County Clerk, Kathy Nickolaus, has finally agreed to step down. This is probably two bungled elections too late of course, but better late than never. Since Ms. Nickolaus is up for re-election this Fall, it would be nice if the voters of Waukesha County enforced accountability by giving her the heave-ho, but given the tendency of electorates to have short memories and little interest beyond their pocketbook, she might actually get re-elected. Failure to enforce accountability in Waukesha County could lead to a fiasco along the lines of the one that unfolded in Arapahoe County, CO a few years back, where a County Recorder named Tracy Baker, together with a county employee with whom he was having a relationship, engaged in malfeasance which cost the county a pretty penny in legal settlements and bad publicity. In Arapahoe County, the voters actually initially declined to recall Baker, only finally voting him out of office the second time around in early 2004. Brief summary of the affair and some of the fallout here.