The Who2 Blog

Barack or Vlad? (Or Nic?)

Best First Dog video so far: (Nice shout-out to Scrappy-Doo at the end, too.)

The Times of London is way, way on the James Bond bandwagon.Dig their giant 007 supersite. The map of Bond haunts is especially terrific. Ditto the reader’s guide to Bond and Ian Fleming.

He’s back!

Headline of the day on the First Dog watch.Here’s the photo.Some of them have mohawks.

I’m still steaming over the nutty code names the Secret Service has given to Barack and Michelle Obama. Renegade and Renaissance? Are you kidding me?Since the Obamas are occupied elsewhere these days, I am taking up the issue on their behalf.

Here’s a salute to the soldiers, sailors, generals, flyboys and even parachutists who got us to where we are today. Thanks, old friends.

Renegade. Renaissance. Radiance. Rosebud.Those, says the Chicago Tribune, are the Secret Service code names for Barack Obama and (respectively) Michelle, Malia and Sasha Obama.

Michelle Obama’s big brother has a new job too.

Actress Doris Day and activist Dorothy Day have little in common besides similar names — and the challenges they pose to anyone trying to document the details of their early lives.The trouble spots are Doris’s name and age, and Dorothy’s daughter’s birthdate.