'Twas a fine time for some time off

So, aside from:

• History's most famous hunting accident.
• A season's worth of episodes of Wide World of Ports.
• The former House majority leader's decision to become a former congressman.
• The acceleration of religious strife and violence in Iraq.
• Disclosure of the White House's leaks of discredited information to try to discredit an Iraq war critic.
• A retired Marine lieutenant general's public condemnation of the Iraq war planning.
• The decline of the Bush administration's approval ratings.
• The misplaced assignment of blame to the media and/or liberals for all of the above.
• A former GOP House speaker's call for Iraq withdrawal.
• Hundreds of thousands of peaceful Hispanic protesters in the streets.
• Hundreds of thousands of not entirely peaceful French protesters in the streets.
• Iran playing chicken with a country with lots of nukes.
• Italy playing bouncer with a PM with lots of media outlets.
• The deaths of a great athlete and a wretched murderer.
• The al-Qaeda guy's apparent death wish.
• South Dakota's decision to force rape victims to carry any resulting, non-life-threatening pregnancy to term.
• A Georgia congresswoman's decision to hit a policeman.
• The next step in the rebirth of Ma Bell.
• A couple of humdrum international sports extravaganzas that got less American attention than a singing contest.
• Yet another guy from the Birmingham area excelling in the aforementioned singing contest.
• Tony Soprano getting a taste of his own fictional medicine.
• Arnold Vinick getting a taste of narrow fictional defeat.
• Denny Crane's worst fictional nightmare arriving -- for real
  -- in the Yellowhammer State.
• Poor Alabama workers finally catching a tax break.
• Poor Alabama renters finally getting a landlord-tenant law.
• Poor Alabama hogs and dogs finally ending their rodeos.
• The Brody Bill faring a bit better than the Tim Tebow Bill.
• Gators and Blazers and Founding Fathers, oh, my.

... what did I miss?