Just what we needed, another excuse for the Utah Legislature to put off tightening its ethics code.

It seems Alaska lawmakers who strengthened their state ethics laws last year following an FBI investigation have put themselves in a box — or at least they might put Rep. Richard Foster from Nome into one.

Foster desperately needs a kidney transplant. An aide to another lawmaker appears to be a match.

But under the new ethics rules, it's illegal for the aide to give Foster a kidney.