Top ten storylines that might break while I am gone

I'm going on vacation.... and my half-hearted attempts to persuade someone to take over the blog for a few days have not succeeded (when a reporter leaves there is already enough added work to go around). So I will be back on August 18 and blogging faithfully again, so leave me on your blogrolls, etc.

In the mean time I leave you with the top ten storylines that might break in my absence, from the most likely to the least likely. Or is that the least likely to the most likely? I forget.

10) The state budget passes with a one cent sales tax increase
9) The state budget passes without a one cent sales tax increase
8) The MTA sales tax measure is sunk because the budget has not passed and the Gov. will not sign the bill.
7) The MTA loses a quickie lawsuit with the county over the sales tax measure
6) The MTA wins a quickie lawsuit with the county over the sales tax measure
5) South Pasadena announces a 710 tunnel lawsuit
4) Pasadena bans smoking in city apartment buildings.
3) The Board of County Supervisors votes to unconsolidate the entire November ballot, leaving individual cities, the state, and the national races to fend for themselves.
2) Frank "Crimescene" Girardot lands a job at Fox News after a successful Greta Van Susteren interview
1) Moe the Chimp turns out to be the real Chris Chichester