During recent oral arguments over whether Brigham City police officers were right to enter a home without a warrant when they saw a fight, Stevens asked an assistant Utah attorney general why police didn't just charge some teens with intoxication because the cops saw them drinking outside the home.

Assistant Attorney Jeff Gray informed the justice the police were charging the adults, not the minors.

"Oh, they charged the adults with intoxication?" Stevens responded. "That's a serious crime in Utah, I guess."

The normally somber and respectful courtroom erupted into laughter.

"We anticipated that [comment]," Gray responded.

At least the justice understood this: You can get a drink in Utah.

War zone hazards: The Tribune recently reported that only one of Utah's five members of Congress - Sen. Bob Bennett - has traveled to Iraq to see the 3-year-old war up close.

So why hasn't Rep. Rob Bishop made the trip that Bennett has made twice? "He's thinner than I am, so I'm a bigger target," deadpanned Bishop, who has acknowledged his weakness for cheeseburgers.

Real World Salt Lake? MTV President Christina Norman spoke at the National Press Club in Washington last week, and we just had to ask, "Will we ever see a Real World Salt Lake City?"

After the laughter in the room subsided, Norman said, "If that's a pitch, I mean, ya know, we can talk afterwards."

Sorry, Salt Lakers, we didn't feel like pushing it any further.

Yes to guest workers: We obtained a bit of a poll by Rep. Chris Cannon's re-election camp this past week that shows his district in favor of a guest-worker program as long as the undocumented immigrants are working in America and paying U.S. taxes.

The poll of more than 400 of the 1,100 state GOP delegates showed 64 percent somewhat or strongly favor a guest-worker program while 24 percent somewhat or strongly oppose such a program. About 12 percent didn't know. There is no listed margin of error, but the poll by Greg More reached more than a third of delegates.

Ashdown vandalism: Democratic Senate contender Pete Ashdown, who is trying to oust Orrin Hatch, got a wave of publicity when he launched his own campaign wiki - essentially an online collaboration to come up with a campaign platform. But Ashdown's Web site, http://

www.pashdown.com, has seen a wave of vandalism as well.

Much of the unauthorized material isn't printable in a family newspaper, but let's just say there were references to sexual orientation, abortion and capital punishment ("It works" the vandal wrote of the latter.)

Another comment: "Ha Ha Losers. Orrin Hatch is unbeatable. Democrats will never win in Utah. Period."

Guess it's the new generation of those people who always steal yard signs.