Thursday Morning Links: Links to news and stuff

BREAKING NEWS: Terror attacks in Rome: Blasts at Swiss, Chile embassies.

I slept in. I did not get up at 5 and do this like I should have — but I wasn’t on the radio this morning and I went to bed at 12:30 last night. So I slept until 7 a.m.  And if felt sinful.

If you’d like to buy a personalized copy of my Greatest Hits books,  I’ll be at Lemuria Books today at 1 p.m.  Come say hi! I’d love to see you.

Weather. The bi-polar weather continues. The warm weather is over and the cool down begins.  Today’s high will be a sunny 51 but there’s actually a rain/snow chance on Christmas Eve. Snow on Christmas. Now wouldn’t that be something.

Hancock Bank will become HANCOCK BANK after a $1.5 billion merger with New Orleans-based Whitney Holding Corp.  That will make Hancock the largest Mississippi-based bank and the 32nd largest in the nation.

Mississippi unemployment rate rose to 9.8% in November. And that doesn’t count the underemployed and the people who are part-time. However it is lower than the 10.4% rate from last year.

Take the politics of the elections out of the equation and Congress finally gets busy. The lame-duck Congress that compromised and could.

I went to see True Grit yesterday and I’d give it ***** our of five.  Haliee Steinfield, who plays Mattie Ross in the remake of the 1969 John Wayne classic, deserves an Oscar. I wouldn’t say it was better than the original, but it stands on its own as a fantastic example of the genre.  Check out the trailer here.