FRIDAY MORNING GATHERING

Barak Obama was at breakfast this a.m. in Charlotte ... $1,000 a plate. Them's some expensive grits!

Turns out, Kurt Vonnegut had a nephew living in Charlotte ... who talks about "Uncle Kurt."

N.C. State University paleontologist Mary Higby Schweitzer has found soft tissue at the center of a T Rex fossil that links dinosaurs to chickens. My Rhode Island Red rooster said he knew it all along.

North Carolina could, if it would, leap out front in promoting green energy in the Southeast. Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants?