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Published 3:20 pm Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Block that shill: At its annual product rollout show today, Apple will introduce software that will enable iPhone users to block website ads on the devices.

Great. Now we need software that blocks overenthusiastic media coverage of Apple product rollout shows.

Free at last: Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, was ordered released from jail Tuesday. “If somebody has to go to jail, I’m willing to go in her place,” presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said.

Book him, Dano. Pander One.

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1893, first lady Frances Cleveland and President Grover Cleveland welcomed a new daughter, Esther, at the White House — the first, and still the only, childbirth in the executive mansion.

Fact: Mrs. Cleveland was only 21 when she became first lady. This makes you wonder why Bill Clinton never hung Grover’s portrait in the Oval Office in admiration.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff