Weeks ago, I reported that Sen. Johnny Walls Jr. of Greenville was being garnished to pay off a college loan taken out by one of his children, but which he co-signed.

The tragic image was of the garnishment papers to be served upon the stately Capitol building on High Street in Jackson.

But today, we learn Sen. Walls’ garnishment on the college loan will be impossible because he’s already got two others taking his legislative pay. Dang.

In a U.S. District Court filing Monday, DFA chief Kevin Upchurch says the amounts coming out of his salary “prevent” the state from withholding the money for the student loan – he’s already paying the IRS, which began in 2001, and the Circuit Court of Washington County, which began in April 2008.

Ugh, that’s bad when you’ve got so many garnishments you can’t be garnished any more. Walls really is a very likeable guy, despite his financial difficulties.

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Greetings to my old college classmate, Ken Oilschlager, whom I visited with today at a reception for new Journalism Dean Will Norton.

Ken swears he reads this blog every morning, first thing.

Thanks to you, Ken, and everybody else for coming back here often.

Speaking of old friends – this one gets downright ridiculous, it’s so old.

My childhood friend, Becky DeCoux Morgan, of McComb, who came into the world about five months after my own arrival, reports she’s now a Grama! Wow, and congratulations.

Her attorney son Jacob Ray and his wife Heather are the proud parents of little Shepherd Carldon Ray (Shep). Knowing Jacob and Becky’s political proclivities, I’d say this baby’s first name has nothing to do with Fox News!

Greetings can be sent to Jacob on Twitter to rjacobray or Becky at morganb@mccomb.k12.ms.us.

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Ah, the gift that keeps on giving (well, news anyway), Sir Allen Stanford, is back in the news today.

Looks like board members of the U.S. brokerage regulator Financial Industry Regulatory Authority may decide this week whether they’ll release an internal report on how Stanford ran his business – very well or very badly, depending on your point of view, I’d say.

They’ve also looked at Bernie Madoff, too. says Bloomberg.com.

Chairman Charles Bowsher is adamant the document be released, sources say.

That’s one report I’d like to read.

Come back for more…. patsy