Bristol Palin Gives Birth to a Baby Boy
Bristol Palin has given birth to a 7-pound, 4-ounce baby boy, according to People and The New York Post.The boy’s name is reported as Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston.
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We Are Not Oprah, Part 23
Who2 often gets letters meant for celebrities. Jesse Jackson and The Jonas Brothers seem to be favorites, but by far the greatest number of letters come in for Oprah.
Happy 200th, Impeachable Andrew
Lots of people are talking about the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial on February 12th. But you don’t hear much about today being the 200th birthday of Andrew Johnson.(Well, there will be a cake at a Greenville shopping center.)
Larry Craig Restroom No Longer a Number 1 Tourist Destination
“I think we’ll all be glad when there’s no special interest in that restroom.”So says the PR man for the Minneapolis Airport. “One person had offered to buy the restroom stall for $5,000, Hogan said, but airport officials ‘don’t sell fixtures for novelty purposes.'”
That Didn’t Take Long
Eric Mangini fired as coach of the New York Jets after three seasons.
Richard Feynman Liked to Draw Women
Zorthian agreed to teach Feynman to draw, and Feynman agreed to teach Zorthian physics. The scientific instruction did not continue long, but Zorthian’s influences on Feynman led to the physicist’s life-long involvement in art making.One of 2008’s more interesting art displays: the Pasadena Armory Center’s exhibition on the art of physicist Richard Feynman, as influenced by muralist Jirayr Zorthian.
One Precious Extra Second
The world’s timekeepers are adding one extra second to 2008 — Wednesday at 11:59:59 PM in London, 6:59:59 pm in New York — “to help match clocks to the Earth’s slowing spin on its axis.”What will you do with that precious extra second?
Brady Proposes to Bundchen for Sixth Time
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bündchen are engaged yet again. Fox Sports has decreed it.
Obituary First Lines: Harold Pinter
Playwright Harold Pinter has died after a long battle with throat cancer.
Remembering Harold Pinter: The Nobel Lecture
Direct invasion of a sovereign state has never in fact been America’s favoured method. In the main, it has preferred what it has described as ‘low intensity conflict’. Low intensity conflict means that thousands of people die but slower than if you dropped a bomb on them in one fell swoop. It means that you infect the heart of the country, that you establish a malignant growth and watch the gangrene bloom.