Descendants of Sigurd the Crusader, 12th-century King of Norway and scourge of the Saracens, have done something even sillier than what their Minnesota brethren are predicted to do next week – namely, re-elect Stuart Smalley (I mean Al Franken) to the Senate, ensuring that their state remains the laughingstock of the republic for six more years. As reported here, retired superintendent James Conway, who worked at New York’s Attica Prison for 38 years, got the shock of his life when he visited Holden Prison, one of Norway’s newest correctional facilities.  “This is prison utopia,” said Conway, adding that if Attica inmates could have designed their own jail, “it would have looked a lot like Holden.”  He summed up his impressions of the place this way: “I don't think you can go any more liberal – other than giving the inmates the keys.” So, is this a case of lunatics running the asylum?  First,...(Read Full Post)