Friday found me in a downtown office watching state health officials unveil their report on how homicidal maniac Phillip A. Paul managed to escape two weeks ago while on a mental hospital outing to the Spokane County Interstate Fair. Sure, I could have caught this yawn and phony show on the tube at home. But I wanted to see if DSHS Secretary Susan Dreyfus was as uninspiring in the flesh as she is in high-def. She is. Dreyfus & Co. have been investigating Paul’s getaway for 15 days. They came up with a decent timeline of events. They formed a new committee. Bureaucrats do love committees. But other than CEO Hal Wilson falling on his sling blade, none of the nincompoops responsible for Paul’s vanishing act or the delayed call to the cops has been named. Discipline is pending. Heck, Dreyfus admitted she didn’t even know if it would have been legal to search the red backpack that Paul took to the fair. How lame can you get?/Doug Clark, SR. More here.

Question: What do you make of the DSHS excuses for Phillip Paul's escape at the Spokane fair?