Fifty-eight degrees at 0800, headed for the upper sixties this afternoon. It’s overcast. I walked out to retrieve the Sunday paper, feeling a little fine mist.

the biggest news in the paper is NOT that Louisiana elected a dimmocrat governor, but rather that the highest paid state official, LSU’s football coach, retained his job after losing three games in a row, among them the God-accursed Alabama. The answer seems to be that, yes, we adore him so much for leading our gallant athletes to victory that we wist to continue top lay him millions of dollars a year.

Oddly, the birth announcements were in Wednesday’s paper.  I’ve been sitting on them (not literally) for today.  We find that the big hospital across the river reports thirty-seven new babies from between November 6 & 23.  Of those, sixteen are to unwed parents and four new mommies are still confused as to who the baby daddy is.

Let’s forge ahead:

Bill & Whitaney(!) A. name their son Teal Reed.  One wonders if he has a sibling, Spoonbill Sawgrass. (That’s a duck name for you who might not be up on North American waterfowl)

First apostrophe of the week shows up as Miss Asia(!) G. does her daughter up with Le’Asia Ja’myrika, hitting both sides of the “Capitalize the first letter after the goofy-assed apostrophe” rule.

We roll right into another apostrophe (they’re sprinkled like dog droppings in some segments of the population) when Darius(!) & Tyiesha(!) L. present their daughter, little Zoey De’Na.

And another apostrophe when as Sanders D. & Betty W. tag their son with De’Chaun Authemont.

Dow & Jennifer W. may be prescient when they name their son Rebel James.

Monte’ D. Jr. & Laurol(!) T. name their daughter Harlee, meaning she’ll fit right in at either a biker bar or a strip club.

Miss Taiquisha F. names her daughter Zoey (not bad) Amelya(Pretty bad – what’s wrong with spelling a name like it’s been spelled for centuries?)>

Miss Brittany G. does a bit of product placement using her baby girl, Bria Chanel.

Kyle ‘n’ Leslie M. name their son Kip McCoy.  Nothing like a last name for a middle name and a nickname for a first name.

Derek & Kayley V. show their love of the letter “K” by tagging their daughter Karter Kay.

And we’ll quit here and call it good.