DISQUS

Yes, you heard right -- at about 2:37 to 2:42. "There are no records of him being a State Senator." Weigel is right, this is hilarious.

This same sad situation was played out in Canada a decade ago. A 13-year-old boy named Tyrell Dueck had bone cancer and his doctors recommended chemo and amputation of one leg. He and his family refused the treatment. His father, a fundamentalist who believed in faith healing, said that prayer would heal Tyrell. His doctors took the family to court, where it was ultimately decided that Tyrell wasn't competent to make the decision to refuse treatment because he was influenced by his father. He was eventually ordered to resume chemotherapy but by then it was too late - the cancer had spread and any further treatment would be useless. His family had fallen into the hands of quacks who took him to a "clinic" in Tijuana where he was treated with apricot pits and shark cartilage. He died before his 14th birthday. The parents weren't prosecuted. Part of the resulting controversy in Canada was over the quacks and frauds who leeched onto the family (to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars raised by supporters) and whether they should be allowed to advertise alternative cancer therapies without regulation. But there's one aspect of the treatment that is different from this case - the proposed amputation of Tyrell's cancerous leg. I think any court or doctor would hesitate before they performed an amputation on an unwilling child without his parents' permission.

"Hundreds gather in Boston". Hundreds? This thing has been pimped by Fox News for weeks and the best they can do is hundreds?

Oh, of course he will. According to Newsmax.com, a spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Washington says that Gingrich is "in proper standing with the Catholic Church," and, "any obstacles to joining the church have been resolved."

Those pesky first and second marriages? Never happened. That embarrassing story about how Newt told Wife #1 that he wanted a divorce while she was sick in the hospital? And the stories about how he cheated on Wife #2 with the woman who is now Wife #3? Nothing to be embarrassed about anymore because he was never married to these women in the first place. See how easy that was?

Zipper soloist made me laugh because .. this actor was a second banana on "Dharma & Greg" playing Greg's sidekick, a goofy fellow lawyer. And this is exactly the kind of business they'd write for Dharma & Greg Guy -- coming out of his office to play a tune on his zipper with the same "look what I discovered!" expression on his face. Don't know what this means, if anything (why would anyone want to give a shout-out to Dharma & Greg?). It was just funny.

Reading the Vanity Fair excerpt, I feel more sympathetic to Christina. What comes across in everyone’s comments from Bette Davis to Douglas Fairbanks to little sister Cathy to Miss Crawford herself is that Christina and Christopher weren’t grateful enough. They didn’t express their gratitude as they should have to generous Joan who kind-heartedly rescued them from a life of, as Miss Davis put it, orphanages and foster homes and who knows what. Why, she did a noble deed and those little ingrates didn’t appreciate it.