While I'm over here moaning about running less than two miles, comedian Eddie Izzard just finished his 43rd marathon in 52 days.

And he did it with only six weeks of training.

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I have just discovered a local NC supermarket has started carrying Upstate NY's famous (but previously-unobtainable outside of Rochester) Zweigle's hot dogs - but not the white ones. Arrrrghghh! I can already get three dozen different kinds of red hots, it's the white hots that I can't get!

Update: OK, now they have the white ones. But, still not the skinless kind.

FiveThirtyEight:

ABC News, citing the DC fire department, reported that between 60,000 and 70,000 people had attended the tea party rally at the Capitol. By the time this figure reached Michelle Malkin, however, it had been blown up to 2,000,000. There is a big difference, obviously, between 70,000 and 2,000,000. That's not a twofold or threefold exaggeration -- it's roughly a thirtyfold exaggeration.

The way this false estimate came into being is relatively simple: Matt Kibbe, the president of FreedomWorks [an organizer of the march], lied, claiming that ABC News had reported numbers of between 1.0 and 1.5 million when they never did anything of the sort. A few tweets later, the numbers had been exaggerated still further to 2 million. Kibbe wasn't "in error", as Malkin gently puts it. He lied. He did the equivalent of telling people that his penis is 53 inches long.

I almost spit out my gum at that one. Hilarious.

But I love gum too much to ever really spit it out.

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Telegraph:

Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin's "struggle between faith and reason" as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie.

The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere on Sunday. It has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia.

However, US distributors have resolutely passed on a film which will prove hugely divisive in a country where, according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution.

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"That's what we're up against. In 2009. It's amazing," he said.

"The film has no distributor in America. It has got a deal everywhere else in the world but in the US, and it's because of what the film is about. People have been saying this is the best film they've seen all year, yet nobody in the US has picked it up.

I'm skeptical. Yes, the US is an ignorant and small-minded country, but we're not afraid of money. I bet the real issue is not that all the distributors are refusing because the content is divisive, but rather distributors are refusing because the content is boring; there isn't a distributor who thinks Americans are going to pay $8.50 to sit in a theater and watch a movie about Darwin's life.