A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

APPARENTLY NEITHER PILOT WAS NAMED SHIRLEY OR PLAYED BASKETBALL FOR THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS: From the Chicago Tribune's cover story today on the NTSB hearings looking into a crash of Southwest Airlines jet that skidded off the runway at Midway airport in December:

As the plane was on its final approach, Oliver told the captain: "We're all counting on you."

Sutherland laughed again and Oliver added: "Picked the wrong day to stop sniffin' glue," an apparent allusion to the 1980 film comedy "Airplane!"

Thank goodness an editor added the word "apparent" to the story, because we can't sure the pilot wasn't in fact confessing that he indeed chose the wrong day to begin a glue habit.