Two concurrent news events marking this first full week of January 2011 are of different types— one that has continued to occur repeatedly, and one that has never happened again since. The former was a senseless mass shooting by a brainless maniac that killed six bystanders and severely wounded eleven others, which this time included a U.S. Congresswoman. The other event, perhaps more relevant to us in Alabama, was the singular spectacle of a college football player named Cam Newton steering his Auburn Tigers to a national championship for their first time in more than four decades.
Estrogen Extravaganza—I do wish I could have been there!