Friday Night

* The Obama administration apparently approached Arnold Schwarzenegger about a cabinet position in 2011. The article’s explanation of the thinking makes this only slightly less ridiculous.

* We are all Oulipians now.

* ‘There was a tornado of fire swept over the farming district’: The October 8, 1871 Peshtigo Fire in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was a firestorm which caused the most deaths by fire in United States history, killing as many as 1,500.

* And Grenada is (so far) your per-capita Olympic winner. Congratulations!