The temperature got down to 40 degrees here at my house this morning -- in Florida!  And we are almost a month into Spring.

It's all over the news.  Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger are locked in a custody battle over their eleven year-old daughter, Ireland. Daddy said some really bad things to Ireland through her voicemail when she wouldn't answer his calls.  Mommy released the message to the media -- apparently in violation of a court order.  Daddy says Mommy is a bad parent.  Mommy says Daddy is a bad parent.  It seems to me that the judge should consider granting custody of both parents to Ireland.

Some ex-diplomat dude at the Toledo Blade has written an op-ed piece that offers a plan for disarming America.  Essentially he recommends that we search the whole country to confiscate all the weapons and store them in museums and armories.  I couldn't decide if it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek or not. Either way, I have a suggestion for him: Since they have been so effective in disarming Iraq and eliminating violence there, he could enlist all the military brass involved in that operation to help him cleanse America of firearms and violence.