Holy Coyote Biting Baby Bottoms, Batman!

No one had to say the 24 hour news cycle is insatiable. It seemed a joke at first, yet the story spoke about our lives and times.

California...Playground Park designed and built to promote a natural hills setting.

Mother not on site...Nanny attending children.

Coyote population adapting...Human population encroaching.

Friend giving interview on behalf of the mother...major networks clamouring for the human interest story.

Baby bitten on the buttocks by a coyote.

Perhaps it is news.

Unexpected Latenight Highlight

This holiday season was so enjoyable and satisfying. And as I was waiting for the New Year to reverberate through the world's time zones and finally reach New York and onto Quanah Texas I began to reflect on what I considered to be the defining moment of 2007. I had thought of poignant moments and a life-altering moment and embarassing moments and heart-warming moments. And then it happened as it often does, the present trumped all the reflection and pensive considerations. Vickie, whom I thought had drifted towards the New Year in peaceful slumber, let out a delightful laugh, and said "I can't believe you quoted Bob Dylan in Bible class yesterday morning!" And all of a sudden we were both lying there laughing as I tried to explain how well I thought his song Gotta serve somebody made the point of my lesson. So there it was...the perfect defining moment; laughing out of 2007 and into 2008.