Touching on a few subjects today:

News item: Golf Channel event anchor Kelly Tilghman has been suspended two weeks for suggesting last week that young players who wanted to challenge Tiger Woods should “lynch him in a back alley.”

Reaction: I think this is about right. Even though the woman is an awful golf announcer who tries her damndest to sound oh-so-hip and with it, she just got carried away. Chalk it up to trying too hard. At least that means two weeks of more enjoyable Golf Channel coverage of featured PGA events.

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News item: Pope Benedict XVI is a feline fanatic and dreams one day of penning a book on cats.

Reaction: The more I read about this man, the more I find him both intriguing and a delight. It’s such a pleasure to be able to, in my own small way, make a weekly church attendance habit where the recognized leader of the faith is not just a tireless defender (the Archbishop of Canterbury could take more than a lesson or two here), but a charismatic and oh-so-human defender of a small part of God’s creation.

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News item: A Houston-area man was killed in a hunting accident after his dog stepped on the man’s loaded shotgun which then fired and killed the hunter.

Reaction: “I’ve been in law enforcement 20 years and this is probably the strangest one I’ve had,” said Chambers County Sheriff Joe LaRive. Not much left to be said there.

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News Item: PETA Requests Vegetarian Diet in Jail for Cannibalism Suspect

Reaction: An early candidate for top 10 headlines of the year, I’d say.

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News item: Swiss outrage: Man drives over his estranged wife and flees the scene, then returns briefly to retrieve his license plate, which had fallen off.

Reaction: In some ways I understand it – after all, you can get ticketed for driving a vehicle with a missing plate, right?