You can run, but you can't hide in San Diego

From the No Good Deed Goes Unpunished files:

A 53-year-old woman who escaped from a Michigan prison in 1976 is facing extradition after being arrested at her upscale home in San Diego, officials said today.

Susan Lefevre, sentenced in 1975 to 10 to 20 years in prison on drug charges, was living as Marie Walsh with her husband in the Carmel Valley neighborhood here, the U.S. marshal's office said.

A tipster had alerted Michigan officials to Lefevre's whereabouts. Her identity was confirmed through the thumbprint on her driver's license.

Lefevre was in "disbelief" when she was arrested last week, said Deputy U.S. Marshal Steve Jurman. At first she denied being the fugitive but then relented, he added.

"She kept saying, 'Are you sure? Are you sure you have to take me?' " Jurman said. "She told me, 'It was the 1970s. Everybody was doing heroin. It's not like it is today.' " . . . .

She will probably have to serve between five and nine years in prison before being eligible for parole, Marlan said. Meanwhile, Michigan officials will investigate to see if she has broken any other laws in her three decades as a fugitive, he said. A fugitive warrant lists several aliases she allegedly used.

I know people have to pay their debt, but, don't you kinda feel bad for her? A Michigan prison spokesman asked what sort of message it would send to other prisoners if you could escape, live clean, and have your sentence dropped if you were caught?

Well, that's kind of a scared-straight message, isn't it? IF you can live clean . . . isn't it a rehabilitation-based system for which we strive here?

Hells Angel hath no fury like a Hells Angel scorned

In a hallmark of 1st Amendment activism a Hells Angel got himself an apology from the Superior Court for a 'misunderstanding' in a judge's order regarindg his scary vest.

Awesome.

Give her, and me, a break

If the Vanity Fair cover is the worst this 15 year old has done, maybe we should give her a flippin' break. She had to apologize for a soft-focus, Annie Lebowitz cover photo of her looking like a painted figurine?

As if.

Caution, sad animal story ahead

This is by far the saddest thing I've read in a very long time.

Why do animal stories reach us when more horrific human stories can't?

A little bit of Iraq infamy still building a home in our region

Fabulous!

Blackwater is still working on its new training center:

Blackwater Worldwide is planning to open an indoor training facility in Otay Mesa after abandoning a controversial proposal to build a training center for law enforcement and the military on an East County chicken ranch.

It wasn't local concerns that scrapped the first proposal, but rather Blackwater's concerns that it be associated with anything chicken.

The new location is cool:

Broughton said the building was already permitted for use as a vocational trade school, and Blackwater's training activities would fall within that category.

It's a trade school! Like a beauty school.

'California home foreclosures hit a record '

California home foreclosures hit record levels in the first quarter of the year - but don't worry, we're not in a recession.

Ironic Headlines, Exhibit A

"Clinton says margin won't matter for a Pennsylvania victory" said a headline from earlier today that linked to an article via Rough & Tumble that now tells a different story - one of Clinton's big win in Pennsylvania where I'm betting now the margin WILL matter in the campaign's press releases.

That expectations game is pretty risky, isn't it.