So then I started looking for examples of other time-honored adages writ large in headlines. Sin is a relative thing, and the wages of sin even more relative. But Warren Judge Susan Chrzanowski has got to be thinking about it. Her tryst ended up with her lover Michael Fletcher getting convicted of murder for killing his pregnant wife. Rapper Eminem isn't honoring his mother this week.
Charity is charity.
A stitch in time saves nine. That folk wisdom applies directly to Luciano Pavarotti's Nov. 21 concert at the Detroit Opera House. President Clinton rapped his own administration's handling of Wen Ho Lee, the would-be super spy. Lee was in the slammer for 278 days before Clinton took Atty. A lot like what columnists do, wags say.