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A few items from the other platform:

• I coined a response to the lecture William Safire gave for the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Art and Public Policy. You want to listen to Safire purr, no, coo that lecture, don't you? Here's the podcast. Then I took my draft, crossed out all the profanity-laden epithets, and put it up on EL, so there you go. I think I spanked him proper, but it only made me miss password-free NYT editorial content.

• Also, fun facts about craters on Mercury named after (terrestrial) artists. I discovered this at about 4 a.m. one weekend night on a crazy jag spent following NASA hyperlinks; then I confirmed with my telescope.

But I don't know anything about babies.