On second thought...

While you're dressing the darlings to go out tonight, consider this: A lawmaker in Connecticut wants to change Halloween from the 31st to the last Saturday of October. Here's a more appropriate idea: This year, change it to the November deadline for the congressional supercommittee to release its deficit reduction plan.

After all, everyone wonders whether the supercommittee will give us a trick or a treat. A lot of us, like Charlie Brown, expect we'll just end up with a rock.

As for President Obama, he just hopes his re-election Halloween bag doesn't end up with Iraq.

Curtis Allgier, Utah's facially tattooed murder suspect, tried an interesting tactic this week. He addressed 3rd District Judge Paul Maugahn with words that had to be reported as "expletive deleted," then said, "You're done being my judge." Time will tell whether this bold strategy helps his defense.

My guess is even Donald Trump would know better than to tell a judge he's fired.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says the operation no longer can accept donations via credit card because those card companies have blocked access. Well, they could always go door-to-door asking for donations in exchange for not putting people's diaries on line.

Wikileaks, of course, is the organization that proved to the world that if you leak absolutely all government secrets, people won't remember a single one of them a week later.

A study published in the journal Injury Prevention this week found that adolescents who drink a lot of soda tend to be more violent. Ah yes, beware of those kids on the corner sipping Sprite from cans in paper bags.

Apparently, there is a magic age at which these adolescents transition into fat adults who instead do violence to the springs in their sofas as they watch TV all day.

The last of Moammar Gadhafi's sons to remain on the loose, Saif al-Islam, once said he would rather die than surrender. Now reports say he's changing his mind. Hmmm. I wonder why?

Moammar's public and gruesome death was barbaric, tortuous and uncivilized. Point taken, Saif al-Islam seems to be saying.

In a related story, Bernie Madoff told Barbara Walters this week he's happy being in prison.

Jay Evensen is associate editor of the Deseret News editorial page. Follow him on Twitter @Jayevensen.