"I have a lot of stuff going on," he said.

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• TINY SKULLS AND BONES. From this morning’s OC Reg: Visiting the Tustin hangars:

The first hangar I went into was the base's south hangar. It was empty, dark and very quiet. The floor was littered with tiny skulls and bones that, from what I assumed, were from raptors that once perched high above. Doorways were covered with cobwebs. Paint was peeling off the walls. Signs of the Marines' tenancy was apparent everywhere.

The north hangar was my next stop. Inside, to my surprise, was the Goodyear blimp. It seemed dwarfed sitting on the floor of the enormous hangar. This hangar appeared in more usable shape, and movies and commercials had been shot in it over the years.

• HUSH-HUSH. A commentary in this morning’s OC Reg: [Orange] Diocese continues its evasions:

…I'm left with the sinking feeling one gets whenever there is a miscarriage of justice. Most of those priests and teachers who committed abuse have paid no penalty for it. Many of the same church leaders who protected the abusers and stonewalled the public are still in influential positions within the diocese. The D.A.'s office has far more excuses than convictions. And the diocese is still fighting to keep matters quiet, apparently having kept secret several alleged abuse cases even as it was championing its new policies and financial settlement.

• ONLINE HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES: TIDAL WAVE? From this morning’s LA Times: Online classes go mainstream:

[There are] 1 million kindergarten through high school student enrollments in virtual schooling across the nation, according to the North American Council for Online Learning….

…To deal with the growth, the University of California is launching an extensive effort to make sure applicants' online high school courses are on par with traditional classroom instruction.

Nearly half the states offer public school classes online, and last year Michigan became the first in the nation to require students to take an online course to graduate from high school….

Online learning "is going to reinvent high school in the United States," said Ken Ellwein, executive director of Lutheran High School of Orange County, which created its online school last year.

…Paul Riscalla, 17, a senior at Orange Lutheran who lives in Orange, splits his time between online classes and the traditional school so he can work 40 hours a week at two jobs and play drums in a rock band. "It was a way for me to have more time outside school, because I have a lot of stuff going on," he said.

…Orange Lutheran's online school, created because enrollment at the 1,150-student school was at capacity, began accepting students in the fall of 2005. Currently, 243 are enrolled in 21 courses offered in eight-week semesters. More than half the students have never set foot on the school's 12 1/2-acre campus, while the remainder are Lutheran High School students who split their time between the traditional school and online learning.

Virtual students at Orange Lutheran must log into their classes daily and read lectures, answer questions, participate in class discussions on message boards and do homework. Students are free to schedule their schoolwork whenever it suits them, as long as they log in daily….