Just Desserts Friday

Maybe these last-minute Friday stories will cheer up your dinner---that is, if you like just desserts. We can only hope these are the start of a trend.

In the first of what could be many congressional corruption cases, Former Rep. Randy Cunningham was sentenced to eight years and four months in prison for receiving two and a half million dollars worth of known, quantifiable bribes. It became so business-as-usual for him that he actually had a price list, and I wish this was only a Jon Stewart line.

The four months may have been a message, because it made this the longest sentence provided to an ex-MOC.

And conservative site Human Events says that Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff will soon be out of a job---maybe in a matter of days.