MORE MISSILES AND BOMBS IN BAGHDAD — and, though less televised, elsewhere — but not much real news. It’s talking-headville on the cable networks, and overall the coverage remains rather boring.

Mostly there are lots of live camera shots of the Baghdad dawn with nothing much happening. Cruise missiles hit some buildings and bunkers, but Baghdad as a whole seems gratifyingly intact. Well, gratifyingly except maybe to some of the news folks, who would no doubt like to have more to show.

Anyway, since the Baghdad skyline figures so prominently in the news, and since I neglected to install a webcam in Baghdad prior to the outbreak of hostilities, I’m instead offering this photo of the Knoxville sky, taken a few hours earlier from near the University of Tennessee campus, looking west. It’s intact, too.

No missiles here, for which I — and the rest of Knoxville, no doubt — am grateful. Good night. See you tomorrow.