Around the horn

That's a baseball term. It means to throw the ball all around the baseball diamond, usually just for fun, but sometimes as part of a complex play, from third to second to first base. So what, you may ask. I have to call these omnibus entries something, that's all.

Subversive Russian prison tattoos on the BBC News site include one of a fat pig in a Soviet general's uniform and Boris Yeltsin swilling liquor.

In California, a bill to legalize gay marriage made it out of committee, but that's as far as it'll go.

Remember those dunken antics by former Enron CEO J. Skilling earlier this month? Now federal prosecutors want the judge in the case to impose further restrictions on the former corporate magnate/monumental scam artist.

In a shocking move, a Texas appeals court commuted the death sentence of a man because he is retarded. Usually they can't wait to kill 'em.

A "civilian contractor" who took a dramatic picture of a planeload of flag-draped coffins on its way back from Iraq has been fired by her employer. The U.S. tries to keep photographs of flag-draped coffins out of the news -- so when someone actually comes up with such a photo, it's played on front pages. Somebody explain that cause and effect to Wolfowitz, okay?