Well, I Pick Up All the Pieces and Make an Island, Might Even Raise a Little Sand

If you were thinking about reading American Lion by Jon Meacham, and needed an endorsement with a bit more notability than the one issued by yours truly back in January, today the book, which details the White House years of Andrew Jackson, won a little something called the Pulitzer Prize for biography. So, if you've always wondered about that crazy white-haired guy on the $20 bill, or even if you just like hickory-smoked Spam, this is a book you might want to pick up, my friends.

In other news of the day, in the recurring category of "Ways in Which the Mexican Drug Cartels Try to Replicate Recent Movies", I've already told you about their attempt to mimic the Joker in The Dark Knight, but today, moviegoers, the cartels tried their darndest to remake 3:10 to Yuma.

In the latest brazen drug-related attack, gunmen ambushed a prisoner transfer convoy in western Mexico, killing eight police officers in a failed attempt to free a high-level cartel member, the police said Sunday.

At least 20 attackers started a running gun battle on Saturday against a dwindling column of vehicles escorting nine prisoners as it raced between an airport and a penitentiary in the Pacific Coast state of Nayarit, the police said.

Ultimately, the cartel was unsuccessful in freeing their target, but that's probably because they, much like Russell Crowe, chose to enlist the help of Tucker James from Flash Forward.