Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) big media day has arrived. After months of speculation, a week of leaks and last night's interview with Barbara Walters on ABC, her memoir, Living History, appears in bookstores today.

I bought a copy this morning and quickly flipped through the pages. But because I haven't yet had time to read it fully -- and comment on it intelligently -- I want to address Clinton's interview with Walters.

In his review of it this morning, Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales attacked Clinton for being "chillingly chilly. She may have emotions like normal people, but she doesn't like to admit it and she's scarily proficient at suppressing them," he adds.

The next time the terror-alert level is raised to "orange," you may want to avoid being in Arizona.

That's because the state is considering staying at "yellow" in order to avoid extra financial costs, according to a recent story in The Arizona Republic. In the article, Arizona's homeland-security director, Frank Navarrete, says, "It creates incredible problems: overtime, financial, functional. It's not quite to the point where it creates havoc, but it's quite disruptive." Next time the federal government goes to orange, he says, "I believe that, based upon our own intelligence, I'm of the mind-set that we don't have to follow suit."