We're taking a time out from the awful Newtown Connecticut story - the grim details anyway, although it's amazing how such a tragedy will compel certain individuals to move into the spot light. State Treasurer Bill Lockyer is calling on California's two largest pension funds to sell off investments in a big edge fund that invested in a global firearms company called Freedom Group, among that company's subsidiaries, Bushmaster International, the company that made the rifle that was used in the Connecticut school massacre. Of course, it's not the first time these guns were used to kill people. So where has Lockyer been before?

Giving new meaning to the term ‘too big to fail,’ Ohio Governor John Kasich has granted clemency to a 450 pound killer who was scheduled to receive a lethal injection for the killing of a Hotel Clerk near Cleveland 30 years ago. Attorneys had argued that Ronald Post would suffer cruel and unusual punishment, arguing that because of his size, layer after layer after layer of fat---they'd have a tough time finding a vein...

No word if the state actually called it off because of the cost of the Big Guy’s last meal.

Get them quickly: A Southern Californian man is selling custom comfortable underground shelters for anyone who thinks the Mayan calendar is on target. And we're all going to head home days before Christmas. 50 thousand dollars....I don't know if the Mayans are coming or not but it might be a good idea to burn those gift cards before Friday. Interestingly, among those selling out big bucks for the shelters, a couple of well known astrophysicists, who apparently think the Mayans were on to something. Tomorrow night in Pittsburgh, delayed out of deference to the shooting victims in Newtown, the new Jack Reacher movie premieres. The star is Tom Cruise, a 5 foot seven actor playing a 6 foot five tough guy Lee Child says there was no one in Hollywood big enough to play Reacher. Vin Diesel. Howie Long. Matthew Modine.

Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones turns 69 today...which may surprise some people since he's looked 75 for the last 30 years, and Madonna is laughing all the way to the bank. The sort tempered and some say, short on talent 80's chart breaker is actually outdrawing Lady Gaga on the concert calendar.