Long before federal prosecutors filed seven federal corruption charges against former county Sheriff Mike Carona, astute observers (and even some not-so-astute ones) should have noticed the disreputable way the man once described by Larry King as "America's sheriff" was running the state's second-largest sheriff's department...

Inhabitants of the Wiki-world, consider these random but related events, most of which pertain to the under-25 set, all of which occurred in the past six months:...

Recently Barack Obama got into trouble by explaining to an affluent San Francisco audience why the cash-strapped, mostly white, working classes in Pennsylvania and the Midwest do not logically vote for his brand of economic populism, but instead cling to issues that sophisticates can see are extraneous to their economic plight...

There's a long-running joke among British Asians that they never get an event started on time...