and Pentagon recovery efforts. Heads rolled. And the former chief executive of the United Way’s Washington, DC chapter went to prison in 2004 following an accounting scandal.

Obviously, this list could go on and on. And most of these groups are partisan to some extent. But they all shine priceless sunlight on things that gargantuan institutions would rather keep hidden.

The dog-watchers at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) need their own watchdog too. HSUS now has an annual budget around the size of an NFL payroll. It has become too big and too unaccountable. Someone has to pay closer attention.

This blog is an attempt to make sense of what’s going on inside that sprawling organization.

Is the Humane Society of the United States all good? All bad? TheLongtime Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Three Guitarist Bob Wootton Dies

Bob Wootton, who served as Johnny Cash's lead guitarist in the legendary Tennessee Three for nearly three decades, died on Sunday (April 9).

Born Robert Clifton Wootton on March 4, 1942, in Paris, Ark., Wootton moved with his family to California, where he heard Cash's "I Walk the Line" for the first time in 1956 and became a massive fan. He taught himself to play guitar in the unique style of Luther Perkins, Cash's guitar player in the Tennessee Three.

Wootton joined the Army straight out of high school in 1961, where he served for three years, and during his time in the service he played in a band wth fellow soldiers, according to his biography from the Encyclopedia of