Today would be a good day to take a pass on attending Occupy Wall Street's "General Assembly" at 7 p.m. (although the 6 p.m. meeting on "Organizing Effectively Without Hierarchy" sounds cool and the 2 p.m. Structure Working Group meeting is a blessed thing). Because tonight, you're going to find out who's a cynic and who's naive, and it's going to get heated consensus-style, as the group addresses Mayor Bloomberg's demand to come in and "clean up" Zuccotti Park, starting tomorrow. The park's landlord's letter to the NYPD, dated Tuesday, asking for help, is full of practical, liability-insurance-based complaints but also has plenty of nonsense, and it's the "unsanitary and unsafe" claim appears to be resonating. So this is likely to escalate into a real and troubling confrontation; there's almost no way Occupy Wall Street can give up the park—but protesters should know that the City doesn't back down once it's said it's going to do something. (Photo from last night by Harrie van Veen.)

The "Ground Zero Mosque" scandal of 2011 isn't going to be aliens. It's going to be....

... Jackée-related. Oh boy, here we go. JACKÉE'S BACK, BACK AGAIN, TELL A FRIEND.

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South Dakota is going to vote on a bill that amends its justifiable homicide law! They want to make sure that you can kill people with justification if someone is going to harm your unborn child "or the unborn child of that person's spouse, partner, parent, or child." The amendment passed out of committee with a handy 9-3 vote. So you can see where this is going. (Fun fact: the law as written already allows you to kill to prevent a felony being performed upon your master or your servant.) The personhood movement is achieving success state by state (just like the gay marriage movement, sort of!) and they are going to try out a new tactic in Ohio: banning abortions after pregnancies of four weeks.