My daughter, in a column for ABC News, weighs in on her hometown’s inability to learn any lessons since last spring:

In Durham, it seems, it’s possible to learn exactly nothing in 10 months — that’s a trick a lot of people pick up in college towns, but it’s not encouraging in this case.

And then there’s this irony:

The Durham activists who banged pots and pans and hung wanted posters of the Duke lacrosse team have put up their own “wall of silence,” refusing to talk to press as Nifong’s case has fallen apart and their sympathetic victim has become a liar.