—From Georgetown, KY.

Gang and Bang: Police in Waco, Texas are looking at pressing murder charges against 170 members of the Cossacks and Bandido motorcycle gangs after a Sunday shootout that left nine people dead and 18 wounded. The charges would be “engaging in organized crime linked to capital murder.” Bail has been set at $1 million each.

Many states allow for murder charges to be pressed against defendants committing a crime during which someone else is killed, even if they didn’t personally pull the trigger. Eight Bandidos and one Cossack were killed in the fight in which police also fired their guns.

World: The Islamic State is more than a billion dollar enterprise that has financed itself with theft, taxation, extortion, ransom, and oil, according to an analysis by the Rand Corporation. The biggest line item is $600 million from taxation and extortion, followed by $500 million taken from banks, the study says.

BC: More than 50,000 emails Hillary Clinton sent from her private account while she was secretary of state may not be released until early 2016, according to the State Department. They are going through about 1,000 emails a week in response to a freedom of information request to have them made public.

Charlie: One of the few surviving cartoonists after the terror attack on France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine says he’s quitting because he can’t take the pressure of production anymore. Renald Luzier, known simply as “Luz,” said, “The time came when it was just all too much to bear. There was next to nobody to draw the cartoons. I ended up doing three or every four front-pages. Every print-run was torture because the others are no longer there.”

$tadium Politic$: A mayoral committee in San Diego has proposed a $1.1 billion new stadium to keep the San Diego Chargers football team from moving to Los Angeles. About $242 million of it would come from the tax-averse city and county governments.

Meanwhile, both the Chargers and Oakland Raiders are in talks in Los Angeles to occupy a new $1.7 billion stadium, although you don’t hear anyone among the ticket-buying public in Los Angeles saying “What we need is a football team.”

#Potus: He’s on Twitter now with the bio “Dad, husband, and 44th President of the United States. Tweets may be archived.” Twitter’s days as the hot nightclub are over.

On the Road Again: The black fence horse country of Tennessee gives way to the black barn country of Kentucky where the Amish farmers mix with the bourbon brewers. Black barns keep the tobacco leaves warm and dry.

The way north takes you through the land of belt buckle and cowboy hat radio, and past the giant Corvette car museum near Bowling Green. It would be a mistake to pass Mama Lou’s Bar-B-Que just off the highway in Munfordville. Half a rack will do and the thin corn bread is made in a skillet … they won’t tell you how.

There’s one last adult superstore before you get off and turn east to the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln in Hodgenville. His family’s log cabin … actually what is likely parts of several authentic local cabins of the time … is enshrined in a marble mausoleum. The installers in 1911 thought it was too big, so they cut a few feet off each dimension and put it back together with mud like kids who couldn’t figure out their Lincoln Logs.

The true destination is Bardstown and Toddy’s Liquor store in the heart of bourbon country where you can buy brews you can’t find anywhere else. We were served by a man who’s never had a sip of any of it. He drinks only beer.

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