Various news outlets are reporting on the little boy who, according to the New England Journal of Medicine, has a genetic mutation that fails to limit muscle growth. The photo at Yahoo! News is worth a click.
The New York Times has more details.
Juan Cole has an excellent summary of the Jack Ryan problems and the larger issues. Must reading.
“Presidential candidate Ralph Nader has finally picked a running mate. He picked a man by the name of Peter Camejo from the Green party, and this guy has all the qualifications Ralph Nader was looking for in a candidate. He said yes. …They plan to be the candidates against special interests and apparently it’s working for them because no one has any special interest in them.”
— Jay Leno
“Ralph Nader choose the man with whom to share the responsibility of running a distant third, California activist Peter Camejo. You may remember that Camejo ran for president in 1976 on the Socialist Workers Party ticket. Actually, you might only remember that if you run a lesbian, vegetarian, bookstore.”
— Jon Stewart
“Presidential candidate Ralph Nader picked Peter Camejo to be his running mate in the presidential election. Experts say by picking Peter Camejo, Nader is guaranteed to win the vote of Peter Camejo”
— Conan O’Brien
“Ralph Nader announced his running mate for the upcoming presidential election. … The guy’s name is Peter Camejo – an investment advisor from here in California . He ran for Governor in the recall election and finished just below Gary Coleman, but 200 votes ahead of Gallagher — so that’s a strong addition to the team. Nader says the election is theirs to lose, and that’s their plan.”
— Jimmy Kimmel
“Nader says he chose Camejo because he has experience, wisdom, plus his parents have a garage where they can practice.”
— Craig Kilborn
The Olsen twins had nose jobs.
NewMexiKen doesn’t routinely watch Jeopardy! like I did in the Art Fleming days, but I might want to watch today. According to news reports, some guy from Utah has been champion 16 days in a row through yesterday and he’s won more than $500,000. It used to be you could only be champion for five shows, but now there is no restriction.
(The current shows were taped in February.)
The 1,000 Best Movies Ever Made. All 1,000 original reviews from The New York Times on-line.
From A.O. Scott’s introduction —
And so this volume is a collection of first words, some prescient, some premature, and worth a good deal less than the thousand pictures they describe. Though its title may invoke the authority of The New York Times, this collection is more likely to start arguments than to settle them, argument being one of the solemn duties of criticism and, more importantly, one of the great pleasures of movie-going.
Help the drunk get home (using your mouse).
was born on this date in 1895 in Manassa, Colorado, which makes him about the most famous native-son of the San Luis Valley. As Red Smith wrote in Dempsey’s obituary for The New York Times in 1983 —
Jack Dempsey was one of the last of a dwindling company whose exploits distinguished the 1920’s as ”the golden age of sports.” His contemporaries were Babe Ruth in baseball, Red Grange and the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame in football, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen in golf, Bill Tilden, Helen Wills Moody and Suzanne Lenglen in tennis, Johnny Weissmuller and Gertrude Ederle in swimming, Paavo Nurmi in track, Man o’ War, the racehorse, and Earl Sande, the jockey. But none of the others enjoyed more lasting popularity than the man who ruled boxing between 1919 and 1926.
The obituary is worth reading.
“After Reagan’s death, the cable channels insisted on reliving the right wing’s fantasy version of the 80s. Now that Clinton’s book has been released, we are now forced to relive the right wing’s fantasy version of the 90s.”
— Bad Attitudes
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“Bill Clinton, who has written more books than George Bush has read…”
— TBogg
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