-
Does
Rielle Hunter’s silence over the last couple of years make her the picture of “quiet dignity
“? Tact comes (late) to the arch-mistress? [
Newsweek
]
-
Robin Wells
is far
more than Paul Krugman’s wife
, yet she’s been consigned, along with Margaret Knox and Sheryl WuDunn, to the ranks of (almost always male) Geniuses’ (almost always female) Spouses. [
Jezebel
,
The New Yorker
]
-Children conceived through in vitro fertilization and other methods of assisted reproduction have
lower birth weights and more “genetic differences
” than those cooked up the old-fashioned way, researchers now say. [
WSJ
]
-The
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launches a Web site covering the “Palin Primaries
.” The goal: to highlight the rift between mainstream Republican candidates and Tea Partiers. Each district’s name appears inked on a palm. [
Politico
]
-
Martin Amis is supposedly indignant
that
Anna Ford called him a narcissist
in Sunday’s
Guardian
.
It’s hard to believe
the narcissist finds the public flap all that upsetting. [
The Elegant Variation
,
The Independent
,
Guardian
]