Several ominous backdrops going on right now...

• New Mexico State now believes that Mike Peake may be involved in the shooting which took place November 19 on the University of New Mexico campus -- and it appears that a motive may surround a football fight between the two teams.  Both ends of a non-conference home-and-home were cancelled between the basketball teams as a result.  Peake, for whom it is not known whether he is actually a student at New Mexico State, has been banned from the basketball team pending university and civilian investigations into the shooting.
• And this gem from Keith Olbermann's Countdown surrounding the massive power outage terrorist attack.  The woman now believed to be the person who shot up the power substation "has friends" in the local Sheriff's Department.  It now appears no charges will come of it, because this woman is now functionally (at least in the locality) above the law.  You just opened the door to this happening all over the country, stupids.