Today's News of the Absurd...

....comes to us from California, a state that's about five minutes away from declaring bankruptcy.A judge in Yolo County, Calif. has sentenced Robert Preston Ferguson to 7 years and 8 months in state prison for stealing a $3.99 bag of Tillamook shredded cheese.Ferguson was a candidate for a life sentence under California's "three-strikes" law but the DA's office was only asking for 11 years.In