do you really need one?

Give him credit for a) Actually summoning up a good head of outrage for a change and b) Actually writing about something that wasn't in the paper two days earlier (and here I await a comment from Joe Keohane about how Walker just re-wrote some month old story from the Patriot-Ledger or something).

And is him getting outraged about this any worse than, oh, a Herald columnist who makes seven figures getting outraged about the size of some state employee's pension?

Walker's DUI case was "Handled" about as routinely as most first offenses. According to a friend who is a former ADA, most first time DUI cases are Continued without Finding and include some or more of the following: six month license suspension, probation, alcohol-ed courses, community service, etc.

Adrien Walker gets lit on his own dime.