Sundry

-- Paging Mr. Hitchcock, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock...

-- Then there was that time that the satirical religious and social commentary site The Babylon Bee just reported a story instead of having to make one up.

-- When TV weather forecasters get it wrong -- with or without the apocalyptic rhetoric their ratings-driven profession demands they offer -- we just gripe at them. Or about them. Josef Stalin had them arrested and sent to the Solovetsky Islands before eventually executing them. Let any Venezuelan or North Korean meteorologists who might read this blog take heed.