Good morning! I’m going to get my hair cut this morning, so this will have to be brief. And I’m taking my three-year-old to get his cut — which makes giving a cat a pill look easy. Weather will start off cool here in Mississippi and warm up nicely to a sunny 60. Not that you need to know, though. Football is on all day today (Click for schedule).
Today’s headlines (In no particular order).
Oregon teen wants to make a car bomb, lands himself in deep kaka. From the AP story: “Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. Friday just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would set off the blast but instead brought federal agents and police swooping down on him. The bomb was a dud provided by agents.” Whether Timothy McVeigh or now this hate bag, it’s nice to know that hate is alive and well.
Even love can’t overcome good old fashioned hate. Gary Pettus has a good piece in the paper I work part-time for today about State and Ole Miss grads who get married. It’s a nice story about what goes on under the roof of the house divided.
Tension continues to build on the Korean peninsula. Now South Korean military vets are joining in protests about the South’s lack of response. China and North Korea are criticizing the U.S. for planned joint military exercises that will include the aircraft carrier U.S.S. George Washington.
Don’t want to watch football (heresy)? Here’s a guide to all the movies playing and just being released this weekend. We saw Harry Potter and the Magical Profits before we went on our trip. It was fantastic.
Cartoon of the day (from another cartoonist): Mike Luckovich at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Top 10 Worst-Alternatives to Plane Travel (from Time Magazine) I think a tandem bike would be the worst for us. My wife would be using a hacksaw.
Oh yeah, and if you haven’t heard by now: The President took an elbow to the lip while playing a game of basketball, getting 12 stitches.