You know about Genarlow Wilson, right? The black teenager jailed for ten years for receiving consensual oral sex when he was 17 from a 15-year-old girl?

Everybody who reads the papers knows about Genarlow, knows that a Georgia judge called the case “a grave miscarriage of justice,” knows that the judge ordered him released forthwith.

And knows that Georgia’s redneck attorney general, Thurbert E. Baker, promptly appealed the judge’s order, thereby insuring that Wilson would remain in jail no matter what some pinko judge said.

But everybody who reads the papers doesn’t know that the redneck law-and-order family values attorney general is in point of fact black — at least USA Today didn’t mention it, and neither did the New York Times or the Atlanta Constitution Journal or Raleigh-Durham’s News and Observer. Or any other paper I could turn up in a quick and dirty search.

I correct this oversight for the benefit of George W. Bush, in case he has another Supreme Court vacancy to fill before he goes down history’s toilet.