Should have done the extra credit: Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s, unimpressed with the deficit reduction deal passed by Congress and signed into law by the president, cut the nation’s credit rating to AA-plus, down a notch from AAA.

Congressional and White House leaders were working

quickly Friday night with a pen and Wite-Out to make the plus sign look like an A before the American people got home and asked where the mail was.

Myrtle, you have some ‘splainin’ to do: Myrtle Rose, a 75-year-old widowed aviator whose small plane strayed into restricted airspace during President Barack Obama’s visit to Chicago, said she thought the F-16 fighter jets scrambled to intercept her just wanted to get a closer look at her vintage 1941 Piper J-3 Cub.

Wasn’t that the plot for an “I Love Lucy” episode?

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1911, actress and comedian Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, N.Y.

On what would have been her 100th birthday, The Buzz suggests everyone pour a shot of Vitameatavegamin and toast her memory.

–Jon Bauer, Herald staff