Interesting events here last night, as an apparently pretty big underground transformer blew up, sending manhole covers flying and flames shooting up into the night sky. Good thing this isn’t New York City, or you know everybody would be flipped out over a terrorist attack. We’re not very high on the target list, though, so they just cut the power and put out the fire. Not a job I’d want – climbing down a manhole and hoping that the people from the power company were really, really sure they’d gotten the electricity shut down. Pretty fortunate that it happened on a Sunday night when nothing was going on (not that there’s a whole lot going on ever around here, but it’d kinda suck to be driving over a manhole when it exploded.

When I first briefly glanced at the headline, I thought Joe Arpaio had been gored by a bull. Sadly, it was somebody else. I wasn’t gonna look at the pictures after reading what happened, but, well, I finally did. One of those staring at a car wreck things, I guess. I hesitate to say that anybody deserves a horn through the throat, but, well, if you’re gonna torture and kill a 2,000 pound animal that can run, like, 35 miles an hour, I gotta say you’re both cruel and crazy. At least the fools at Pamploma aren’t cruel. Just stupid.

While the financial reform bill headed to conference doesn’t exactly have the blessing of Wall Street, folks in the financial sector are apparently pretty relieved that it doesn’t really do anything.

Speaking of not really doing anything, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is talking tough about BP, but not actually doing anything about them as oil – that may be un-cleanable – oozes into Louisiana’s wetlands, and the oil keeps gushing out more than a month since their drilling rig blew up (a month already? My how time flies). Well, that’s unfair, I guess. The Obama Administration did issue a moratorium on offshore oil drilling. For those wishing to expand their vocabulary, “moratorium” apparently means “business as usual,” as at least 17 permits (more than one every other day) have been issued since the “moratorium” went into effect.

Tonight is the series finale for Law and Order, which bows out after 20 years. Well, sort of. A new Law and Order LA will premiere in the fall (which I predict will be a flop; not the fall, the show), the SVU show will be back for another season, and I’m pretty sure that L&O or one of its spinoffs is on somewhere 24/7 (often at the same time).

Still it’ll be sad to the show that brought us Stephen Colbert as a murderous forger, a young Lewis Black with a Jewfro, and a then-unknown Phillip Seymour Hoffman and his lawyer, Samuel L Jackson.

Yes, I havewatched the show once or twice.

Oh well, time to shut all the doors and windows; it’s gonna be way too hot today.