Monday update

Greetings from the Bluegrass. It's cold and rainy here today. The drought made for a quick fall, and tomorrow we're dropping to the 40s.

• A tip o' the hat (thank you, Stephen Colbert) to the Naval Academy midshipmen, who, after a 43 year stretch finally beat Notre Dame. Coach Weiss, if you're looking for employment (and you ought to be), the Ace Hardware down the street from us is hiring.
• A wag o' the finger at Pervez Musharraf. In the past week Pakistan's president fired the supreme court because he learned they were about to declare his recent re-election unconstitutional. Then he locked up 3500 people because they don't agree with him. He is also sending out the riot police to any political protests, and has suggested that because of this [self-invented] state of emergency, he might need to postpone elections for a year. While some countries have frozen their foreign aid to Pakistan in light of these alarming developments, the US continues to send them billions.
• Requirements for Delta Stewardesses, from a 1960 brochure: "Applicants must be 20 through 26 years of age, between 5'2" and 5'7", weight in proportion but not over 130 lbs., never married and in radiant good health." My, how times have changed.

I've altered my travel plans for this week so that I can be here to vote for governor in person. Hopefully, Beshear will walk away with this thing, but you never know.