Bangkok: Thai police have released a sketch of a man who is the suspect in a central Bangkok bombing that killed 20 people. They say don’t know where he is from, what his motive was, or whether he is still in the country. Security video shows that the bomber may have had two accomplices.

Nation: Three people are missing and presumed dead after heavy rain led to landslides in Sitka, Alaska. Slides of mud and trees buried homes.

>Former Subway sandwich spokesman Jared Fogle is expected to plead guilty today in federal court to possession of child pornography. Fogle became the face of the company’s advertising 15 years ago after he lost 245 pounds eating nothing but Subway. The chain severed its relationship the day Fogle’s home was searched in July.

>Just days after two women passed the Army’s strenuous Ranger training, the Navy announced that its special forces SEAL teams will be open to women who can pass the grueling course. The military is under orders to open all combat positions to women.

The Preppy Handbook: The ugly side of privilege is being revealed in a trial has begun for a graduate of the St. Paul’s prep school in New Hampshire who has been accused of raping an underclassman in a pre-graduation sexual scoring contest. Owen Labrie, 19, who had been admitted to Harvard, is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl.

The charges reveal that St. Paul seniors held a contest called “senior salute” in which graduating boys tried to have sex with as many younger girls as possible. The accuser agreed to meet Labrie, but the two diverge on what happened and whether the girl was a willing participant.

Burning Bushes: Wildfire this week burned dozens of homes in the Pacific Northwest and thousands of people have had to evacuate. California is still fighting stubborn fires as television news reports “all out battles” and “raging wildfires.”

While there’s some truth to that, many news reports have made it look like practically the entire West is burning this summer. But the Los Angeles Times puts the acreage into perspective. In their natural state, western forests were cleansed and regenerated by fire until modern firefighting and the encroachment of civilization interrupted the balance of nature. Suppressing fires over the years makes them worse when they strike overgrown areas.

While fire has consumed seven million acres so far this year, a mark not hit for the last 10 years, five million of those acres are unoccupied wild land in Alaska. When you subtract the Alaska fire acreage from the big picture, it’s a fairly normal fire year in the West.

Military Industrial: Although the Marine Corps recently declared the new F-35 joint strike fighter ready for combat, the blog “War is Boring” reports that, according to an anonymous test pilot, what the fighter is ready for is to get shot down in a dogfight.

The F-35 is the most expensive weapon system ever built, costing between $148 million and $337 million each, depending on configuration and which service branch is using it. But the test pilot said the F-35 is too sluggish and unresponsive to defeat a 1970s-era F-16 in a one on one fight. The implication is that if the US ever gets into an all-out war using the F-35 as its front line fighter, it will quickly lose control of the air.

Pink Pill: The FDA has approved the drug Addyi, the first to increase sexual desire for women. The drug was rejected twice but was the subject of an equal rights for women public relations campaign demanding a female Viagra. The warnings say don’t take it with alcohol, so there won’t be any of those champagne and bathtub commercials.

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