Well, if you haven’t all heard, Johnny Cash died the other day. Time has a pretty good article on his life that you may wish to check out. Its not often that you get a bona fide artist that can transcend genres so I suppose its a universal loss for a lot of us.

In the world of sports, you won’t hear me praise the University of Michigan often, but kicking Notre Dame’s teeth in certainly qualifies. Go Big Blue!

And now on to imbeciles. Texans got around to dealing with a certain faction of their citizens who forgot what the Civil Rights Act was all about. Too bad they had to waste time on whether or not it was “permissible” to change things.

And, if you were expecting residents of Florida to actually be smarter than they were three years ago; think again. Florida legislators are trying to give some students free passes to graduate without completing their senior year in high school. Remember earlier this year when a whole mess of students couldn’t pass a test that would qualify them as having a good education? Yeah, same kids. And just in time for next year’s presidential election.

And in Washington D.C., the move to potentially abuse our civil rights continues with a whole slew of new laws that make the Patriot Act look like a “Girls Keep Out” sign on a treehouse. You can read more on this at the New York Times (log in using “wallenfeldt” as the MemberID and “guest” as the password). I mean, let’s be honest, how does checking out what I’m reading at the library have to do with capturing Osama bin Laden? We ARE still planning on finding him, right?