Reflections on today's news

• There is (1) either much more information to come concerning this drowning or (2) we need to bring back The Twilight Zone just to have an episode about this story.
• If you really love a little girl "like she was my own daughter," you simply do not -- ever -- shake her until her head flops back and forth, her eyes roll back into her head and she has a seizure. You just don't even come close to ever doing anything like that. Then there are those who never should be fathers at all. Oh, G-d, why is it that the children always seem to be the victims?
• In stripping Florida State of 14 football victories and wins in nine other sports, the NCAA's infractions committee said: "The most severe penalties (emphasis mine) are appropriate when the academic mission of the university has been compromised." This, to me, proves the death penalty will never be imposed again.
• Most Americans like The Prez even if they don't much care for what he's doing or planning to do.
• Is there a chance that this conference on the Trinity Tollroad could be connected to this decision by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood?
• Memo to Jane Fonda: If you don't have any plans for the old one, I'll take it. Reminds me of a great title I always had for a record album: Songs I Learned at Mother's Knee and Other Joints.
• What's the No. 1 worldwide box office leader this year? The answer might surprise you.
• If preliminary reports are true, we may have hit a new low in movie comedies. But it's going to take some doing to overtake such turkeys at Miss March and Bride Wars.
• Don't hold your breath for the next installment of the Batman franchise. It appears the next episode won't be coming our way until 2012 at the earliest and most likely it will be 2013. And don't be suprised if Christopher Nolan opts out as director and is replaced by Zack Snyder.
• Apparently there is going to be a fifth Indiana Jones movie -- all that's needed is a script. I have an idea for a starting point: Indiana Jones and the Assisted Living Center.
• I just saw the flier for next week's Terrell Owens' Farewell Party. It says very clearly it's for the "Classy & Sexy Only," which means My Hero can go, but I'm out.