I don’t deny it wasn’t stupid, looking back now, but there again I say what 21- or 22-year-old in this world hasn’t made some stupid mistakes?

— Cherokee County, Ga., Sheriff Roger Garrison (R), insisting to WSB-TV that he “has no affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan, despite old photos that surfaced showing him wearing a robe and hood.” He says he wore the costume to a Halloween party “long before he took office.”