It's Bad Behavior Friday™!

As of tomorrow, driving 80 mph will be legal in the wide-open spaces of west Texas.

You know, no one ever says "western Texas" or "eastern Texas." I think that's because all of Texas is western, even east Texas.

In L.A., an "agitated woman" climbed into a building's air duct and it took "an urban search-and-rescue team, heavy rescue vehicles, six fire companies and two ambulances" to extract her. This demonstrates why it might not be a bad idea to hire, in addition to those big hunks of man (and woman) who populate the fire departments of America, a few really small people who can shimmy into small places and rescue stuck cats, burglars, and crazy-ass people.

New York is agog over a recent shooting. The alleged perpetrator is a psychotic nightclub bouncer "obsessed with martial arts" who "took his job way serious." He is alleged to have shot not only four club patrons in a recent fracas, but is now suspected in three other, unrelated murders.

Memo to the nightclub bouncers out there: stop hurting America.

In the U.K., nutcase politician George Galloway -- think of him as a cross between Ralph Nader and Elton John -- says if someone tried to shoot Tony Blair, it would be "morally justified." He also offered to go into a boxing ring and "take on both Bush and Blair at once," saying:

They are the sort of men who are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood. They couldn't personally punch their way out of a paper bag. They send other mothers' sons to their death, and I find them both deeply repugnant.

I don't know about Blair, but I'm not sure I'd like to take on Bush. I'm sure he bites.