Mad World

First it's a pot house right up the street from McMumsy and PolackPappy.

Then I wake up at 5:30 this morning at my friend OSB's house in Dublin, NH to pee and look out the window where I discover, instead of the usual snow and pine trees, state troopers as far as the eye can see and a mobile SWAT command center with these freaky lit-up traffic cones in front of it.

It turns out that, just after I'd gone to bed the night before, one of OSB's neighbors lost it and shot his ex-wife and her lover in Peterborough, where I lived for several years. The lover is a friend of OSB's husband that he's known since high school. Both the shooting victims were airlifted to major hospitals and, I think, are both going to live.

Meanwhile, the shooter had holed himself up in his house with one of his teenage children. I apparently slept right through the cavalry's arrival at around 3 in the morning. OSB's husband watched the SWAT team suit up, in camo, with big guns, and fan out into the woods.

They brought the shooter in without incident at around 6 this morning. I couldn't find much about it on the Internet so you can consider this your breaking news blog of the day.

But oh, New Hampshire, what is happening to you?