'Affluenza' and Other Stupid Medical Ways to Get Away with Murder

In my fare burg, there is this kid — this rich, spoiled-ass-rotten, still-sucking-on-mama’s-teet-called-kaching, 16-year-old punk — named Ethan Couch. He, for lack of a better word, is a murderer.

And for his crime of killing four people as he got behind the wheel of a car; thus, making it into a bullet hurled out of a .357, gets 10 years — probation?! What the what?

Why? A doltish term North Texas psychologist called in the Couch trial “affluenza.”