Notes, quotes and anecdotes:

• Republican candidate for governor, Attorney General Tom Corbett, opened his mouth and inserted his foot during a campaign stop in Elizabethtown when he claimed unemployment benefits should not be extended because it will keep people from looking for work.

"The jobs are there," he said. "But if we keep extending unemployment, people are going to sit there and ... I've literally had construction companies tell me, 'I can't get people to come back to work. … They say, "I'll come back to work when unemployment runs out." ' "

Corbett is known for prosecuting legislators and aides who used state employees on state time to do campaign work. Give him his due, but he is also known for his grandstanding press conferences and for his over-the-top prosecution of former county Coroner Dr. G. Gary Kirchner, who shared a password to a restricted county website with some Intelligencer Journal reporters.

On Tuesday, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report that showed there were 4.7 unemployed workers for every job opening in May.

Feeling the heat, Corbett told Captiolwire.com:

"I don't mean to be insensitive ... . I know ... we've got a 9.1 percent unemployment rate." Let's be fair. He didn't say "let them eat cake." It just sounded that way.

• I just finished reading "The Irregulars," by Jennet Conant, a book about English spies in the United States before and during World War II. England spied on us? We were a people separated by more than a common language. It's a great story.

The author reports that after the war one of the spies bought a 100-acre tobacco farm in Lancaster County. He didn't do well here and wound up in New York with an ad agency where he was the genius behind "The Man in the Hathaway Shirt" (the fellow had an eye patch) and Schweppes beverages' Commander Whitehead.

• In USA Today Weekend, Kristen Wiig, of "Saturday Night Live" fame, mentioned her days as a difficult student at a Lancaster County school.

Entertainment Editor Michael Long did some digging and found that Wiig moved with her family to a house on Wynnewood Drive in Manheim Township from Canandaigua, N.Y., when she was 3 (about 1976). Her father, Jon, was an officer with Trojan Yacht. When she was in the eighth grade, she moved with her mother and brother to Rochester.

Wiig — an Emmy nominee this year for her "SNL" work, a star of the film "MacGruber" and the voice of Miss Hattie in "Despicable Me" — probably went to a Manheim Township school. Anyone remember her?

• The website GOPUSA ("Bringing the conservative message to America") opposes Senate Bill 3194, which would give collective bargaining rights nationally to police, firefighters, etc., who are employed by state or local governments.

The website quoted many people in opposition to the bill, including conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh.

It also noted:

"The Mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, recently stated that struggling cities are 'handcuffed' by public sector monopoly bargaining."

Wouldn't they be surprised to know the mayor, Rick Gray, is a Democrat.

And won't Mayor Gray be surprised to learn he's quoted along with Limbaugh.

All-star pain
Daughter Abigail, 14, wondered why we had to watch the baseball all-star game Tuesday night. She asked:

"Isn't it on again next year?"