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Can the Rev. Jeremiah Wright do what Hillary Clinton has been unable to do? Namely, derail Barack Obama's Presidential campaign?

It's a grand understatement that Rev. Wright's re-emergence on the speaking circuit isn't doing Obama any good.

Wright's tour couldn't come at a much worse time for Obama, who is campaigning for white working class voters in Indiana and North Carolina. Many of Wright's most controversial comments are angry condemnations of the United States for its treatments of blacks - thoughts that were applauded by the black church leaders in his audience Monday but risk offending white voters.

Not everybody mutters a silent curse every time they pull into a gas station:

BP PLC, Europe's second biggest oil producer, reported a 63 percent surge in first quarter net profit on Monday after crude oil prices soared to an all-time high and natural gas prices also rose.

Grand Theft Auto IV hit the shelves at midnight, primed to do $500 million in sales the first week alone.

Brian Crecente, editor of the gaming Web site Kotaku.com spent five days in a hotel room in San Francisco recently putting GTA IV through its paces. He'll be online at noon to chat about the game.

It's like watching the opening of a movie. I sit back on the couch, lay the Xbox 360 controller by my side and take in the opening cinematics of the game. The credits pop up as part of the scenery, blending into the backdrop as Niko, the game's anti-hero, hustles about a merchant marine ship coasting into the harbor of Grand Theft Auto's New York City, known in the game as Liberty City.

Colorado ranks near the bottom in public support for higher education and officials say a push to increase oil and gas taxes to fund scholarships won't provide much help for schools to improve teaching and facilities.

Myung Oak Kim reports:

Three hundred students can't start nursing school at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs because there isn't enough lab space.

At Metropolitan State College of Denver, one in four students drop out after their first semester; the rate is higher for minority students. Officials acknowledge that the lack of full-time instructors is part of the problem.

That's what USA TODAY says, grading the Broncos - and the Tennessee Titans - a D+:

Happy times when need and the right player coincide. Ryan Clady can eventually step in at LT, where the Broncos lost 11-year veteran Matt Lepsis to retirement. WR Eddie Royal helps on punt returns and gives Denver wiggle room with Brandon Marshall, a question mark because of an arm injury. But why draft Royal after signing veterans Darrell Jackson and Keary Colbert and Brandon Stokley before that? Lot of money is being tied up in this position.

Seems a bit harsh after the Broncos picked up the player widely regarded as the No. 2 offensive lineman on the board and a special teams player who should shore up their woeful special teams.

What do you think of the Broncos draft?

Lots of stuff going on at the legislature, including a final vote on a bill, which makes it illegal for a person to masturbate in public, even when the individual's genitals are concealed by clothing or other material.

Maybe it's just me, but I sort of figured that would be illegal already.

Oh well, we'll ask legislative reporter Alan Gathright about this and other bills including one that would raise the $5 limit on bets in Colorado casinos, when he joins us for an online chat at 11 a.m. E-mail questions/comments in advance and join the chat here at 11.

And it's early in the day so who knows what Doug Bruce might be up to.