Much ado has been made about the media’s fascination with celebrity news. And that is, worrisome. But really, there is good news too. Like the inreased amount of scrutiny other people now live under. Like judges. Because I don’t recall ever reading entertaining stories about judges. But in recent months, either judges have gotten weirder or people are paying more attention to them.

Like the guy in Tennessee who is trouble because there is a recording of him dictating legal things. That also contains a recording of him allegedly

saying some hair-raising things.The AP reports: “Authorities have said when they first heard the tape, they thought they were listening to a torture session.”

Torture?

The judge, in his defense, calls them “graphic fantasies.”

Um, yikes.

Today, we learn that you should not fire secretaries who have recordings of your “graphic fantasies.”

-- It is not clear to me what the GPS system has to do with this story. Is it the satellite’s fault that the car got stuck at the crossing?

The AP reports: “A computer consultant driving a rental car drove onto train tracks Wednesday using the instructions his GPS unit gave him. A train was barreling toward him, but he escaped in time and no one was injured. The driver had turned right, as the system advised, and the car somehow got stuck on the tracks at the crossing.”

Seriously, if the GPS had told the guy to cross the track someplace inappropriately, OK, blame technology. But car gets stuck at crossing and gets hit by train? That’s got nothing to do with the GPS system.

On the other hand, I should tell you, I was using a GPS system the other day and it said the CVS in Sunbury is on Market Street. What’s that all about. The CVS moved years ago. It also refused to believe that my house has a street address. And Snyder County entered the 20th Century well over a year ago. I have a street address.

-- And now there is word today that the Nice Young Ladies who tried to rob The Texas Two Step with a tire iron will be spending some time behind bars. The tire iron-wielding bandit will spend at least 21 months in state prison. The driver of the getaway car will get up to 23 months in the county jail.

To those who do not recall, the bartender was unimpressed by the lady with the tire iron and shooed her away without giving her any money.