The Who2 Blog

Last week, Jar Jar Binks.Now: Happy 74th birthday R2-D2 man!

It seems that Joe Biden can continue his run for senator from Delaware as well as be Barack Obama’s running mate.Biden has been a senator since 1972. He was reelected in 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996, and 2002… bringing him up for his seventh election in 2008. In some states he’d have to drop his Senate bid in order to run for vice president. But not in Delaware.

Delaware’s Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2008.Barack Obama announced Biden as his choice with an overnight text message to supporters and the press.

One more for the weird baby name brigade: Gwen Stefani and Zuma Nesta Rock.Born at Cedars-Sinai!

A North Carolina man has used a pink Barbie rod and reel to catch a record-breaking catfish. David Hayes landed the 21-pound fish on six-pound Barbie test line.

Nick Symmonds is out of the Olympics.

Seems like only a few years ago that Bruce Willis and Demi Moore were married and having kids.Now their daughter Rumer is playing a nerdy college coed in the movie The House Bunny.

A modest coincidence: Joe Biden and Evan Bayh — the leading candidates to be Barack Obama’s running mate — both have sons named after themselves and nicknamed Beau.Beau Biden (Joseph R. Biden III) was born in 1969 and is now attorney general of Delaware.

Runner Nick Symmonds won his quarterfinal heat in the Olympic 800 meters today. He’s through to a semifinal heat on Thursday.Alas, his teammates Andrew Wheating and Christian Smith didn’t make the cut.

Oh, dear. The lastest Bigfoot sighting turns out to be a hoax.