The chance of survival for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Saturday’s
shooting increased significantly because of one factor: The single
bullet that struck her traveled in and out of her head.
Gabrielle Giffords is the Arizona Congresswoman who was shot by a 22-year-old man at a meet-and-greet in Tucson today. We’ve just posted a new biography of Gabrielle Giffords, with information taken from her Congressional biography, her official site, news updates, and past reports.
Whenever I do something extremely dumb, we usually get a good
result… That’s the
only thing she would find extremely irritating about me, is when I make
some colossal mistake and it turns out to give us a good score.Warren Buffett on his platonic bridge partner, Sharon Osberg.
Roger Ebert and his wife Chaz Ebert attended the world premiere of the movie The Dilemma in Chicago last night. Dig the scarves.
Happy 200th birthday to you, Bigfoot, you hairy, reclusive, and almost certainly non-existent creature!Call it the Bicentennial of Baloney if you will, but today is the 200th anniversary of the first modern-day sighting of Bigfoot in the Americas.
Ted Williams, the “golden-voiced” homeless man featured in 2011’s first viral video, has apparently been offered full-time announcing work by the Cleveland Cavaliers.To take the story back one notch: Williams was panhandling in Columbus, Ohio last month when a Columbus Dispatch reporter took this video:
Last week Slate presented a nice little article from the clever and snotty pen of Christopher Hitchens — surprise!
No, wait! This time Hitchens isn’t grousing merrily about knuckleheads in politics or the philosophical abuses of religion — he’s grousing merrily about How to Make a Decent Cup of Tea.
As of this moment:”Zsa Zsa Gabor is still being treated with powerful
antibiotics at an L.A. hospital as doctors try to avoid amputating part
of her infected right leg to prevent the spread of gangrene.’
Robert Duvall turns 80 years old today. Happy birthday, old man! You’re the greatest.
Scottish singer and songwriter Gerry Rafferty died in England today at the age of 63.
Reports say he’d had various liver and kidney problems that caught up to him.
Rafferty is known in the U.S. for two songs in particular: 1972’s “Stuck in the Middle With You” (by the band Stealers Wheel) and 1978’s “Baker Street,” one of the few rock songs with a saxophone that doesn’t absolutely suck.
“Stuck in the Middle With You” gained new fame after Quentin Tarantino smoothed our ears with it in 1992’s Reservoir Dogs.