Not a Promising Sign

When even a former president can't get his paper delivered properly by the DMN, what does that bode for the rest of us? It seems that Laura Bush has told People that their neighbors are bringing the paper over every day, because the DMN has been slow to deliver it.

They even have to rely on the kindness of friends to get the local paper. "The only thing we don't have are the newspapers. It has been slow to get The Dallas Morning News delivered," she says. "People bring the newspaper to us later in the day. It's just not being delivered yet."

Of this, and that: The Thursday is Not Friday, Unless You're Me Edition

1. How about this bit of awesomeness? Can. Not. Wait. 2. I have no idea why they'd want to do this. None at all. 3. The Chicago Tribune's Mary Schmich just discovered Internet commenters are sometimes lowlifes spewing mean awful stuff. 4. Cindy Adams: How can you get even a correction wrong? The DMN reported already that your source never talked to you, and your subject hasn't picked a neighborhood. So you're wrong. Still. 5. Princeton Professor Julian E. Zelizer asks, "If we're gonna be reforming stuff, why not the electoral system as well?"