In other Friday news...

A couple stories that range from the intriguing to the bizarre...

• New Jersey is going beyond mere neighborhood registries for sex offenders to implementing a program to continuously track their whereabouts via satellite. Who's going to man the screens day and night through hundreds of dull trips to the library and laundromat? Feels cosmetic to me.
  
  
• In an article that wins the award for Most Misleading Headline, the Inquirer reports that a state court upheld Allentown's right to include protection of gays in their anti-discrimination laws (in housing and employment). Some fine points of "home rule" included in the discussion.
  
  
• US Senator Rick Santorum was recently embarrassed by a flap over his charging his district thousands for virtual schooling for his children while not actually living there. In response the school district appears to have changed its rules, allowing payment to residents who are called away by employers...