O.J. Can You See?

If this were any other summer, there would be a severe shortage of important news because most of Washington is at the beach. But this isn't your ordinary summer so there has been precious little time to catch up with our favorite celebrities other than that energy crisis-solving Paris Hilton. Which begs a question: Wassup with O.J. Simpson?

The answer is that The Juice has his neck in a noose, it's slowly tightening and it's hard to see how he's going to get off the hook for his latest transgression, which mercifully did not involve any bloody corpses and was merely a case of armed robbery and kidnapping.

A fourth co-defendant pleaded guilty this week in that bizarro incident in Las Vegas, meaning that four of the five men implicated with the one-time Hall of Fame football player, movie actor and ad pitchman will testify against him when the trial gets underway on September 8.

Simpson and the remaining co-defendant have pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon that could put them in prison for life if convicted. More here.

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