Ronnie will not go to jail

Well, that's a relief to us all.

July 12, 2011 at 2:01PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
FILE - In this July 13 2010 file photo, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro arrives at the Jersey Shore Soundtrack Release Party in New York. Ortiz-Magro has been admitted into a pretrial intervention program that will allow him to avoid a criminal record for an assault that was shown on the first season of the MTV reality series. The 25-year-old New York City resident appeared Monday, July 11, 2011, in New Jersey Superior Court in Toms River. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
(AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Judging from the wires this morning, we could fill this page with nothing but celebrities appearing in court to answer for something or other. Let's start the day with the welcome news that a "Jersey Shore cast member" - can't call them actors, after all - won't be going to jail. Whew!

You can find him fighting on various YouTube clips, if you're really interested in a big steaming pile of testosterone grunting the F word while he punches someone repeatedly in the head. There's also dramatic music to make it sound like this is an important moment in human history, instead of someone acting like an ape.

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