With Week 6 of the college football season technically already underway, I figured I’d better get to that promised update on the “Lucky 13″ — the thirteen remaining undefeated teams in Division I-A.

Also this week, I’m going to look at the “Nauseating 9″ — the nine winless teams in Division I-A, three of whom hail from BCS conferences! But let’s start with the Lucky 13, and see what their schedules look like this weekend.

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Jane Fonda will be on campus tomorrow evening, according to an e-mail sent out this afternoon:

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South Park’s tenth season begins tonight at 10:00 PM. NRO’s Cathy Seipp writes about the show’s cultural significance, and calls Parker and Stone “the anti-Aaron Sorkins of the TV business.” (Hat tip: InstaPundit.)

Customer service sign at Taco Bell. Notice the spelling of the word "accurate." LOL!

Kirk Fordham, a former aide to ex-Rep. Mark Foley, said he alerted the office of the Republican leader of the House of Representatives two years ago about worrisome conduct by Foley with teenage pages, AP reports. Visit CNN for the latest.

I was reading in today’s Washington Post about a group of students who are fighting the administration of my old high school over their intellectual property rights. Now, anyone that has been to McLean High School knows two things, it is one of the smallest high schools in Fairfax County, and it has the student body most likely to go to the mat fighting against, well just about anyone over just about anything. I think this has something to do with the number of parents who are also lawyers and a general feeling that the law applies to us too god dammit so stop trying to screw us.

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Logan Wanecski has entered the world!!

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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shannon just sent that picture out via cell phone. I’ll post more when I have more details.

P.S. AWWWWW!!!! Look how cute he is! AWWWWW!!!!!

UPDATE, 11:21 PM: Still no details yet about weight, time of birth, middle name, etc. Like I said, I’ll post ‘em when I get ‘em.

I did write back and ask (saying “YAAAAY!!!!” several times in the process), but I’m guessing Shannon, or maybe P.J. using Shannon’s phone, sent out the above picture to a flurry of people (I say “flurry” because I got it at 9:14 PM and Becky got it at 9:19 PM, so I suspect there were a number of others on the distribution list as well) and then probably put the cell phone away for the night. Certainly, my earlier joke notwithstanding, they have plenty of more important things to do right now than sending multiple text messages to friends in faraway states. :)

Anyway, the message contained only the above picture and the caption “Hello Baby Logan!” So, y’all know literally everything I know at the moment. (Speaking of which, in case anyone is wondering, Shannon has basically given me carte blanche to blog about this. Hence all the updates.)

I can’t wait to see Logan!! Becky and I will be in Buffalo on Friday night (for Marissa and Keith’s Saturday wedding), and so we will probably meet Logan sometime on Saturday. He’ll be just four days old! The adorableness meter promises to be off the charts!

Incidentally, since Logan has finally been born, I just removed the “Shannon’s due date” countdown (er, countup) from the “upcoming events” box at left. But, for posterity, here’s what it looked like just before it was removed. It got all the way to -7!

Before the clock strikes midnight, I gotta mention a very important event today that I haven’t posted about yet… it’s Bea’s birthday!

Lest Andrew’s feminine qualities confuse anyone :), Bea is the one on the right. (Now there’s a scary thought: someone to the right of Andrew!)

But seriously, a very happy birthday to Bea, a.k.a. La Voz de la Razón. May the Infallibility of the Holy Bea be duly recognized by the future Mr. Duque for many years to come! Hehe.

P.S. Why is it that whenever I wish my friends happy birthday, I always inevitably end up making fun of them? :) Though really, in this case I’m more making fun of Andrew. Kinda like how Comedy Central’s “Roast of Pamela Anderson” quickly degenerated into a roast of Tommy Lee’s penis. Actually, no, not like that at all.

P.P.S. EDITOR’S NOTE CONFESSION: This post was not actually published at 9:24 PM, as the timestamp indicates, but rather at 11:08 PM. The reason I bumped it “back in time,” if you will (one-point-twenty-one jiggawatts!!!), is that I wanted that other October 3 baby — the several-hours-old Logan Middle-Name-Still-Unknown-To-Me Wanecski — to get top billing on the blog overnight and into the morning. He’s just so darn cute, it would be a crime to bump his picture “below the fold” prematurely. Not that Bea isn’t cute, too, of course! But, y’know, even the sexiest 26-year-old can’t really compete on cuteness points with a newborn… especially a newborn with a cool hat and a stuffed monkey!

I was just browsing Southwest Airlines’s policies, and I was highly amused to discover that they have a specific policy regarding fat passengers — but of course, they don’t call them fat. They call them “Customers of Size.” LOL!

Former Rep. Mark Foley was molested as a teenager between the ages of 13 and 15 by a clergyman, his lawyer says. Visit CNN for the latest.

The Dow Jones industrial average closes at a record high as the bell rings. Visit CNN for the latest.

UPDATE BY BRENDAN: Here’s a nifty chart from the New York Times:

Swell:

“The U.S. extreme threat of a nuclear war and sanctions and pressure compel the DPRK to conduct a nuclear test, an essential process for bolstering nuclear deterrent, as a self-defense measure in response,” the North’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement…

My Take: Kim Jong Il is getting jealous again. Too much media attention to Mark Foley and Bob Woodward. ;> Here’s hoping little Kim the Ill doesn’t Test it atop one of his mighty Taepo Dongs; nobody knows where those things are gonna Fall down & go Boom ~ least of all his Democratic Peoples’ Republican Rocket Scientists. / Whole thing.

(We return you now to Other cheerful news of the day, e.g. slaughter of schoolchildren to expiate killer’s sins, hijacking of airplane to protest Pope, and destruction of church by lightning.)

Police say that the man who shot children at an Amish school told his wife that he had molested young family members 20 years ago. Visit CNN for the latest.

Drudge has a siren up for an apparent airplane hijacking:

State-run radio says a commercial airliner has been hijacked in Greek airspace…

Turkish Airlines spokesman says hijacked aircraft has landed at an airport in Brindisi, Italy…

Brindisi is near the southeast corner of Italy.

UPDATE: The BBC reports:

[The plane] sent out an SOS twice in Greek airspace, and Athens scrambled four fighters to escort it to Brindisi, a Greek official told Reuters.

The Turkish Airlines plane is carrying at least 107 passengers.

Unconfirmed reports say there are two hijackers and they are protesting about plans for a papal visit to Turkey.

Presumably, they’re upset about the pope’s speech that quoted an 14th-century cleric saying that Islam is an evil, violent religion. And they’re “protesting” this allegation of evil and violence by hijacking a plane. Way to go, idiots! That’ll show ‘em!

I say again: utterly insane.

The thunderstorms storms that rolled through yesterday afternoon wreaked some major havoc, as lightning struck a church in Mishawaka and set it on fire, destroying it.

Er, yeah, so that sucks a lot. Here’s a video report from WNDU, and here’s one from WSBT. The affected church is the the Albright United Methodist Church; Google Maps satellite view here. The parish has been around for 150 years or so, according to WSBT, and they had been using that church for about 60 years.

At the time when the storm which eventually produced that lightning strike was approaching the area, I blogged about a nasty line of thunderstorms that was hitting Wisconsin, and wondered if they’d make their way down here overnight. Well, they did, and although I slept through ‘em, apparently they packed quite a punch. The storms evidently knocked out power for a while at our apartment, judging by the flashing clocks, and they also caused some serious problems at Notre Dame’s information-technology department:

Here’s what the line of storms looked like on radar (animated GIF; takes a while to load fully) when I woke up this morning, by which time they were already well south of the area.