Nobody's at fault any more. Everyone's a victim. Isn't that the way you sometimes feel?

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected the petition of William Jefferson Walker, sentenced in 1983 to serve 10 years in an Arizona prison for aggravated assault and leaving the scene of an accident. Walker had argued, as he has in four other petitions filed with state and federal courts, that he was deprived of a fair trial because no one in his jury pool had a last name that began with W,X,Y, or Z. Walker claimed that people with surnames late in the alphabet have an increased tendency toward "alphabetic neurosis," a mental illness brought on by "the constant strain of waiting for one's name to be reached in the classroom and in other situations." He derived his theory from a scientif…