Sometimes, when the remote control is that close to you, you just, you know, pick it up and use it. Sorry, but that’s just the way it goes. Fear not, though.  We’ll likely talk later.

Via the Tampa Tribune and AIR: Two Saudi men were arrested Friday after they boarded a school bus and rode to Wharton High School in New Tampa. Students on the bus became alarmed, as did the bus driver, who called ahead. Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies met the bus at the school and detained the men. No one was injured and nothing out of line occurred on the bus, deputies said.

From Terry Hastings, via email: The Duke Lacrosse saga continues to play out in the media.  When guilt or innocence is finally established, will the media examine its own roll in shaping the direction the story has taken?  Thomas Sowell asks some hard questions.  With respect to the mindset that some blacks have re guilt innocence of the Lacrosse players — According to Newsweek, the young man at NCCU said

From California Conservative: Going behind the scenes of crime and terror along our southern border, KRGV-TV Newschannel 5 in Texas leads an exclusive investigation and offers this shocking report. “Terrorists in our own backyard, and the government tries to keep it a secre — XENOPHOBES! RACISTS! YOU LIE! LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE!  AND BUSH LIVES IN TEXAS, SO TEXAS LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES!