A physician writing in the holiday issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal concludes that the Grinch suffers from a chronic hormonal deficiency called Addison’s disease. The symptoms: an abnormally small heart, irritability, and salt cravings…

Related: At a Manhattan “holiday party” thrown by Gore Vidal, Katha Pollitt and Susan Sontag duke it out over “the last of the pretzels.”

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