10/24: Morning Communique

CITY PAGES BLOGS

Steve Monaco has your Monday Movie Quiz at Couch Pundit.

Check in with The Blotter later this morning to find out who won the Katherine Kersten Haiku Contest!

Find out which famous dead person Diablo Cody portrayed at a recent Halloween soiree at Pussy Ranch.

THESE DAYS

Category 3 Wilma makes landfall in southwest Florida.

The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday unanimously struck down a state law that punished underage sex more severely if it involved homosexual acts, saying "moral disapproval" of such conduct is not enough to justify the different treatment.

Joseph Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame are preparing to file a civil suit against Bush administration officials who may have disclosed Plame's identity and scuttled her career as a covert CIA agent.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Minneapolitan Gopher-Goof wonders how Bush reconciles his faith with his deeds at The MN Life.

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TIME WASTERS

North Country co-stars Charlize Theron and Frances McDormand re-team to bring MTV's animated freedom fighter Aeon Flux to the big screen.

Coffee shop employee Lev Yilmaz has created a terrifically droll animation about his more-successful friends. [via Drawn!]

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"I beat Mike Wallace on that. Mike gets his suits from funeral homes."

-- 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer, 74, on being labeled a "fashion icon" by Time Magazine, and why co-star Mike Wallace is not

"Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment."

-- Pundit Ann Coulter, working the crowd at the third annual Ronald Reagan Black Tie and Blue Jeans BBQ in Alachua County, Florida