The story that won’t go away in Mississippi is a flap over the Daily Mississippian’s “sex columnist,” Sumer Rose, who wrote a column last month about nooners. Apparently appalled to learn that college students have sex (who’d a-thunk it?), the Rev. Donald Wildmon’s Tupelo-based American Family Association (best known for its completely unsuccessful effort to get NYPD Blue taken off the air a decade ago) has been trying to spin the incident into a full-fledged brou-ha-ha, calling on Chancellor Khayat to censor the college newspaper, and generally being the self-promoting flim-flam artist that he is. The Jackson Clarion-Ledger’s Sid Salter today rightly slaps down Wildmon’s dopey self-promotion/fundraising campaign.

The soap opera that is Alabama’s football program continues in earnest; James Joyner at Outside the Beltway reports that the Mike Price era at Bama is over, after exactly zero games. James links to a Ivan Maisel ESPN.com piece recommending that the Crimson Tide hire ex-Bama player Sylvester Croom, who apparently is currently an assistant coach for the Green Bay Packers.

No matter what happens, I still look forward to watching the Tide’s defeat at the hands of the Rebels on October 18.