Flashback: The day Rep. Bobby Rush got kicked off the floor of the House of Representatives for wearing a hoodie in honor of Trayvon Martin.

Even when one or two stories dominate a national news cycle, there are still thousands more circulating beneath them. Most of these are local, which is great luck for local journalists, who can use them to fend off angry senior-citizen complaints that nobody's explained why Dahlia's Café—the one with the all-afternoon early bird!—was replaced with a "Chipottle."

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) staged a hoodie protest on the floor of the House today, donning a grey hooded sweatshirt (and sunglasses?) to draw attention to the murder of Trayvon Martin. You can't wear hats in the House, so he got thrown out.

Rod Blagojevich just had an awesome press conference announcing his selection of Roland Burris to the US Senate. Now no one knows what will happen.