This Sunday in the "What's Wrong with People?" department, we have quite a selection.

One would start with the Los Angeles Walmart shopper accused of pepper-spraying 20 shopping rivals to get an edge in pursuit of an Xbox on Black Friday.

Would start with her, that is, if it weren't for the numerous shoppers who ignored a man dying in the aisle of a South Charleston,
W. Va., Walmart.

The 61-year-old eventually was noticed by an ER nurse and rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

"Where is the good Samaritan side of people?" a friend of the man asked. "How could you not notice someone was in trouble?

Is he kidding? Competitive shopping takes focus. You stop and ask someone if he's OK — let alone alert a store employee or call 911 — and you're losing valuable seconds, possibly minutes. Was the good Samaritan of the Bible on his way to scoring a LG Blu-ray Player for $49?

I ask you.

Next up are the reviewers who showered acclaim upon a novel by a teacher canned for having an affair with a 17-year-old student.

Yes, his "novel" is about a teacher having an affair with his student, and, yes, students at the international high school in Paris, including the victim, say nearly all the events in the book are real.

OK, not the ending, in which the sleazoid author has the student "still dreaming" about the teacher.

Feh.

Yet novelist Alice Sebold called the author "fearless," and The New York Times praised the depiction of the protagonist's "moral ambiguity."

Just what we're in short supply of today.

Speaking of which, Laurie Fine's seeming confirmation that her husband — then Syracuse basketball assistant Bernie Fine — molested Bobby Davis when he was a ball boy — naturally has drawn a great deal of comment. Less noticed is another apparent admission — that Laurie Fine also has sexual relations with Davis.

I'm thinking a best-selling novel has to be on the way.

Athletes are often featured in this column, but the best any player could come up with on the field in recent days is a tasteless end-zone celebration.

After scoring last week against the Jets, Buffalo wide receiver Steve Johnson mimicked New York receiver Plaxico Burress shooting himself in the thigh. Burress, remember, spent 20 months in prison for violating weapons laws in the nightclub incident.

The display cost the Bills a 15-yard penalty on the ensuing kickoff, and a short field helped the Jets score on the drive, tying the game in a contest they eventually won by four points.

As if that evidence of karma weren't enough, the league slapped Johnson with a $10,000 fine.

Moral ambiguity? When it comes to players showing up opponents, the NFL apparently isn't into it.