—Meh.  Not gonna happen, I’m afraid.  When the little guy slipped out of his shell for a 12 pt EKG this morning, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of his reflection in the stainless steel tip of the nurse’s stethoscope.  And, judging by his reaction—he burst into tears and cursed the maker’s of Cajun Jerky and Yoohoo—he won’t be shoveling his folded gut bulk into dance leotards anytime soon, I don’t

Via Allah, guest posting for Ms Malkin:  “Unconfirmed:  ABC Suspends John Green for one month.” Green, you’ll recall, had one of his emails bashing the President published by Matt Drudge, causing him some rather temporary grief; now, The New York Observer, who—along with TV Newser—is reporting on the suspension, also notes points out a New York Post “Page Six article” that […] quoted from another Green e-mail, this one about

Decision ‘08’s Mark Coffey emails: Followers of PlameGate will be delighted to hear that the agenda-less, objective Joe Wilson will be appearing with such luminaries as Jane Hamsher, Dan Froomkin, and Larry Johnson to discuss matters at the YearlyKos convention. I swear I’m not joking… …to which protein wisdom replies, “wait, there’s something called a ’YearlyKos Convention’?  Christ.  They’ll probably be enough tinfoil at that thing to grill up a

Tigerhawk discusses what he learned while attending a “roundtable” discussion on the Iranian nuclear crisis at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School last evening.  Participating were Ali Ansari (University of St. Andrews in Scotland), Johannes Reissner ( head of the Department for Near East and Africa at the German Institute for International Politics and Security in Berlin), Frank von Hippel (professor of public and international affairs and co-director of the Program on

No word on those irregular moles, which I’m told to take as good news.  So one worry down. On the heart front, I spent this morning at the cardiologist.  My EKG was normal; the cardiologist scheduled me for a stress echo next Wednesday—an echocardiagram, then some treadmill work, then a second echocardiogram.  I can’t wait! He also put me on an antacid, Protonix, to see if it relieves some of