This morning I woke up at 5:30 am and then went for a run at 6:20 am. I might be a little crazy. It was really nice though, to go out running just before sunrise.

Ok, so I read the news everyday and usually find articles where I want to tell people about it. I email myself the links so I can blog later about it, but usually I forget to. Not today. It’s not exactly my adventure late Sunday and early Monday making baklava (I have pictures and all that), but at least it’s something to read for today. It’s not exactly my blog friend Mandy’s ‘Dispatches’, but hopefully you’ll like it.

First up, we have the article my friend Chad sent me yesterday about how a guy in Mississippi who was beaten to the brink of death by someone he had kidnapped. Apparently he picked the wrong couple to mess with since the guy was ex-military. He literally broke the rifle’s stock over the guy’s head. I told Chad I am not sure I’d have left him alive.

Second, infamous governor of SC Mark Sanford laments about living alone in the Governor’s Mansion. Poor him, now he doesn’t have his chick in Argentina and his wife moved back to Charleston with the kids. I guess that’s the price you pay for cheating on multiple continents. BTW, from personal experience, Charleston is light years better than Columbia.

Next I read an article about people that have gotten heart transplants competing in Ironman competitions. How cool is that? I especially was fascinated when the doctor described that post transplant, it’s takes longer to get the heart pumping fast because it needs adrenaline to get going, and not the brain. Who feels lazy now?

Apparently a teenager in Orlando thought setting himself on fire would be cool because of a video he saw on Youtube. The mother actually partially blamed Youtube. Of course, because lighting himself on fire must be too completely stupid for her son to do. That shot at Harvard is looking bleaker by the minute.

Finally, NASA might not get enough funding to track asteroids in space like they were directed to do. Apparently in 2005 Congress wanted NASA to be able to track 90% of all large asteroids by 2020, but now they don’t appear to be wanting to provide the additional funding required. What happened to all that stimulus money? Maybe they think Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck can save the day, but I can tell you, there’s no way NASA can prep two shuttles that fast to launch at the same time.

Also, I was playing around on iTunes last night and downloaded the Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me podcast. My friend Kari has typed about this show before, but I honestly don’t listen to the radio that much, and I don’t really know what station NPR is in NOLA. The podcast was free though, so I subscribed and listened to the 8/8 show yesterday morning on my way to work. It was really great. I enjoyed the jokes involving current events. I even knew a lot of the answers to the trivia. I think one of my favorite parts was when the host described how Bill Clinton was pretty much Superman and stepped off the plane from NK with a knife between his teeth and a female reporter on each arm. What’s he going to do next???