Michael Phelps has primate-like limbs because, he is, well, a primate, after all, as am I, as are you. (We're apes too).

From Wikipedia:

The name he used to board the plane was Dan Cooper, but through a later press miscommunication, he became known as "D. B. Cooper".

For more information on what the Danes get for their money, see the article "The Copenhagen Consensus", in Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008 issue. Here's a preview: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/63223/robert-kuttner/the-copenhagen-consensus

Hey Anonymous, be not so quick to take offense. I agree that the article's intro could have done with some editing, but I didn't ever get the impression that the author was saying that "it's ok for men to kill themselves" (I am male btw).

>Would there be any mention of this article in Broadsheet if the stats were reversed?

It *is* a column about *women's* issues...

Regards.

A note to the editor: I know this is an American publication, but Blair's party is named Labour, not Labor.

Regards.

Uh, that would be a lunar transit of the *sun*. Cheers.

I don't know what it means, but it's possibly an allusion to George Orwell, who described his family background in those words.

ccrowson wrote:

> I wish I could remember or find the quote. Either HL Menken or IF Stone said something about being the friend of politicians makes you unable to write about them. Something about going to their parties.

I don't know that quote, but I remember the comedian Alexei Sayle's comment on why he didn't go to parties: "You go to parties, and you meet Paul McCartney, and you think, well, Paul isn't so bad. And then you meet Maggie Thatcher, and you think, well, Maggie isn't so bad. And then you meet Adolf Hitler..."

Hey King, lighten up on Norway. Not every medal is gold. Norway won 19 medals--2 gold, 8 silver, 9 bronze. Not bad for a country of 4.6 million.

Cheers!