Good morning! Today is Wednesday, May 11. Your taxes were due 23 days ago, so it might be time to file. Here are some links to other items of note:
President Obama’s approval ratings hit 60 percent, even without the support of the extensive bin Laden family.
Tony Hendra, former editor-in-chief of Spy magazine and the first editor ever hired by National Lampoon, has launched a new satirical website, The Final Edition, which will hopefully bust the Onion’s monopoly on satire.
Gay men are twice as likely to have cancer. Why? No one knows why.
Christopher Hitchens says Noam Chomsky’s comments about the death of Osama bin Laden—“the Abbottabad, Pakistan, strike would justify a contingency whereby ‘Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic’”—are irresponsible and idiotic. George W. Bush would probably agree.
After trying his hand feet at professional soccer, Chad Ochocinco is going to have a go at professional bull riding. Beats how some NFL players are spending the lockout, i.e., going to jail with higher frequency.
