Hood discusses meeting with Balducci, Patterson

In this AP story by Holbrook Mohr, does Jim Hood sound like he's about had enough of being Attorney General of Mississippi? A State Farm attorney suggested during a court hearing earlier this month that Scruggs dispatched Balducci and Patterson with a message for Hood: Scruggs, a political force with deep pockets, would support another candidate for attorney general if Hood charged State Farm with a crime.Hood scoffed at the notion on Wednesday."I didn't care who (Scruggs) supported. I wasn't crazy about being attorney general anyway," Hood said, adding that he preferred being a district attorney. You know, I watched Hood all through last year and part of the year before, including his Katrina testimony before Congress, and I detected no sign that he was having anyt