So David Kernell, 20, of Knoxville, Tenn., has been charged with hacking into Sarah Palin’s private e-mail account hosted on Yahoo.com. He’s pleaded not guilty, and is scheduled for trial in December. If convicted, he could get five years in prison, $250,000 in fines and three years of a supervised release.

Just curious: How much time will Palin get for using that very same e-mail account to circumvent Alaska state public records laws?

So poor Sheldon Adelson, chairman of Las Vegas Sands Inc., has lost $13 billion in the financial crisis, dropping from the third richest American on the Forbes list to No. 15. Now, while this alone is not sufficient proof of the existence of a just God, it surely is powerful circumstantial evidence.

Just curious: Which is worse, a billionaire losing a few of his billions, or the working poor wondering if they’ll have a job and food next week? If it’s the latter, shouldn’t we be reading more about them? Here’s a handy little phrase to keep things in perspective in these tumultuous times: Never feel sorry for a man who (still) owns a plane.

So, a group of Republican lawmakers made a last-ditch attempt to stall the release of a report into Palin’s firing of her public safety commissioner following the governor’s push to fire Alaska state trooper (who was involved in a bitter custody dispute with Palin’s sister). The Republicans contended the investigation was partisan.

Just curious: If the investigation was begun with a bi-partisan vote, welcomed even by Palin herself (she said, “hold me accountable”), carried on with bi-partisan support and concluded with a bi-partisan vote to release the report, doesn’t that undercut the entire “partisan” argument? And in fact, if the entire opposition to the investigation comes from a single party, isn’t that partisan?

(For the record, the report found Palin abused her authority as governor, inasmuch as she did bring pressure to get the commissioner fired motivated in part by the custody dispute. However, the report also found the firing was lawful and a proper exercise of her gubernatorial powers. Oh, but then again, Palin maintained she didn’t pressure the commissioner to fire anyone, which means she lied about it. It’s never the crime, it’s always the coverup.)

So the Review-Journal poll finds that 71 percent of Nevadans are primarily concerned about the economy and jobs. That’s probably true across the country as well.

Just curious: So why have John McCain and Palin been talking about nothing except William Ayres and what he did 30 years ago? (Terrorism, by the way, was the concern of just 8 percent in the R-J poll.) It’s gotten so bad, McCain has had to reign in his own town hall audiences, who shout things like “terrorist!” and even “off with his head!”

(Seriously, “off with his head”? What are we, at the Renaissance Festival? We know McCain is old, but you’re just patronizing him now.)

So a Washington D.C. man, originally from Northern Nevada, is essentially homeless, living in his office and showering at the local gym before starting another grueling day in the nation’s capital.

Just curious: Why would a guy like that be such a dick when it comes to helping other homeless people?