Scruggs won't serve time in Panhandle prison due to fears he will air mail himself out of the country

OK, I said blogging would resume July 22. More like July 23. Sorry for the delay, but the workload that was interfering with blogging has now eased, for the time being, sufficiently to allow for life's necessities -- such as blogging -- to resume. This story from Patsy Brumfield -- I had a sixth-grade teacher named Michelle Brumfield, I wonder if they are related somehow (that's typical of someone from North Dakota, we had so few people we figured everyone was related somehow) -- on Dickie Scruggs' not being assigned to a prison in the Florida Panhandle. Scruggs is a former Navy flyer and famously has his expensive Air Scruggs ride, and apparently officials don't assign people to the prison if they have or have had a pilot's license. (Rumor has it his ride is so nice it is being f