What's up in Jim's neighborHood?

It's hard to tell when Jim Hood comes out of nowhere with some bizarre escapade like last week's press conference whether such an event is an objective in itself or merely an attempt to deflect attention from something else that will come up later.If you recall, last week Hood said he is: responsible for the additional State Farm Katrina settlements because he sued State Farm several months after they announced a deal with Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale to reopen thousands of claims files; the strongest man in the South, and he would prove it by walking right through a brick wall in front of reporters' eyes, except there was no brick wall around; and probably the reincarnation of the Pharaoh Thutmose III of Egypt, circa 1500 B.C, or possibly P.T. Barnum, or