Um, I don't know . . . . I hate it for anybody, but things are rarely the same after such -- Sup't Kathy Cox has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

According to the Athens Banner-Herald, State School Superintendent Kathy Cox has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy due to losses incurred by her husband's home building business, with $3.5 million in liabilities and just shy of $650,000 in assets.

And to think that just a couple of months ago she gave away the million bucks she won on “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” I am curious, very curious, what her husband's creditors are going to have to say about that. They will have something to say I assure you . . . .

Cox said she didn't intend to step down or allow the personal crisis to interfere with her public duties.