It's strangely calm this morning. Quiet out there (too quiet?).

The students are back in class. Congress is still in recess. And all's right with the world -- except perhaps for former boxing champ Danny Romero, who goes before a judge this morning on drunken-driving charges from last month.

What could possibly go wrong?

This is the day in history, by the way, that the troubled Apollo 13 moon mission took off in 1970. We weren't paying much attention at the time, but Ron Howard's marvelous 1995 movie about the mission gives us a gripping glimpse of what we missed.

It's also the day the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was overthrown (1979), Gen. Douglas MacArthur was fired by President Harry Truman (1951 -- talk about an unpopular presidential decision), and Napoleon went into exile (1814 -- for the first time, but he had a lot more mischief up his sleeve).

It's also the day the Spanish-American War was declared (in 1898) and declared over (a year later) -- a "splendid little war," as it was called at the time.

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