I'm not someone who condones the lawsuit culture. Every time something really bad happens, someone has to be sued for not being psychic and not anticipating what no one had seriously conceived. I'm all in favor of holding people and companies accountable for provable negligence -- they knew it was a danger and ignored it, like the McDonald's whose 185-degree coffee had burned several people before a woman who got severe burns from it sued -- but that's a lot different from "something's wrong, someone must be to blame."

So I've been skeptical of all the post-Columbine lawsuits saying that it was really the police who killed person A or person B. However, this site has pictures of maps the FBI has not released to the public, purporting to show that lots of police rounds were fired into the school, most have not been tracked to specific weapons (they weren't fired by any of the teen gunmen's weapons), and that "some police fired into closed rooms, where Eric [Harris] and Dylan [Klebold] never were, firing at unidentified targets."

Randy Brown is the father of Brooks Brown, the boy whom Harris told in the parking lot to take off so he wouldn't get hurt just moments before the attack began.

The host of Good Eats, perhaps the best cooking show since Julia Child's best years, was held in a Kroger supermarket in Georgia for 45 minutes in handcuffs, threatened with criminal prosecution, asked for a $500 bond, investigated, and eventually released upon a promise never to set foot in a Kroger again upon threat of instant arrest and prosecution.

What did he do? He picked up a box of donut holes from a Krispy Kreme inside the store, ate two of them, and while rearranging his hand basket accidentally left the box on a shelf. He ate two donut holes -- for which the store readily admits they had free samples -- without paying for them.

This is so stupid. Not only would Brown have willingly paid for the holes had he realized they weren't still in his basket, he has filmed dozens of Good Eats episodes in Kroger stores with full on-screen credit to the chain.

What if a store employee had simply said, "Sir, you forgot your doughnut holes" and handed me the box before I had moved past the register and into custody? I would have been a thankful, happy customer. I have to think that this approach would have required a lot less of the store's manpower. They could have kept a loyal customer rather than losing one.

So what did I learn? I learned to not assume that I live in a world where a person can make a simple mistake without getting his picture taken in cuffs for "the record". I leaned that I don't like handcuffs. I learned that I'll have to find another grocery chain to shoot Good Eats in. And I learned that one should never, ever open a package of anything in a grocery store.

I'm glad there are no Kroger stores around here. They sound like unfriendly places.