“NAACP Leaders Urge Fairness for Vick,” it says.  After all, Michael Vick is black.  In case you were wondering what accusations of promoting dogfighting have to do with the Advancement of Colored People.  I assume his co-defendant, Tony Taylor, who just copped a plea (so they say), is against the Advancement of Colored People.

But this “fairness” stuff seems to go very far:

Georgia NAACP President Edward Dubose thanked Vick for his community service and the money and excitement he has brought to Georgia as a Falcon. Dubose said Vick is being prosecuted in the court of public opinion before he has had a chance to defend himself.

“We’re not condemning bad behavior, but Michael Vick is innocent until proven guilty,” Dubose said.

“Not condemning bad behavior”?  What exactly are we condemning, then?

This just in:

A driver ran a checkpoint at a nuclear weapons plant early Monday and crashed into a barrier, then fled on foot, authorities said.

The guy “ran” a checkpoint and the checkpoint became rather irrelevant.  Bad.

The car hit a barrier and there it stopped.  Good.

The guy got out and ran away.  And, the story says, they’re still looking for him.

Pretty bad.  Inexcusable, even?

Could William Shatner really jump the shark yet again? 

By all indications, yes!

Jon Lovitz beating someone up — did you ever dream he had it in him?

Really fat guys are different from you and me:

Crews rescued a man from the St. Croix River at Fox Landing, near Grantsburg, Wis. after he spent 12 hours stuck in the water. Authorities said the man’s weight was a mitigating factor in his delayed rescue.At about 8:15 p.m. Monday, authorities received a call of someone with a medical condition needing assistance.

According to the Pine County Sheriff’s Office, a group had gone tubing on the river when the tube of a man weighing at least 500 pounds went flat about two miles south of Fox Landing.

When you’re a quarter of a ton, you can’t expect to have the same kind of fun as human-sized people. Believe me, I know about overweight. But 500 pounds — that puts you in a very special class. And that’s not the same class as the one that includes “tubing” as a recreational option, I think.

Some people are so bad even an American jury in the 21st century — even one in Los Angeles, for heaven’s sake — will demand actual justice. Chester Turner is one of those. Don’t read further if you’re squeamish in the crime and punishment department:

He was convicted April 30 of 10 counts of first-degree murder, plus one count of second-degree murder for the death of one victim’s fetus. That victim, Regina Washington, 27, was 6 1/2 months pregnant when Turner strangled her with an electrical cord behind a vacant house in September 1989.Another victim was found slumped over a portable toilet, and one woman was found in front of a crack house.

Turner was already serving an eight-year prison sentence for the 2002 rape of a woman on Skid Row when his DNA linked him to the 10 killings, carried out between 1987 and 1998.

Jurors also agreed with the special circumstance allegations that Turner committed multiple murders and that one of the victims — 38-year-old Paula Vance, killed in downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 3, 1998 — was murdered during the commission of a rape.

I’m stunned less by his crimes but that a coastal jury would actually follow through with a capital verdict and a trial judge would agree.

But don’t worry, Chester. California’s appellate judges are full of surprises.