A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

DRINK UP ME HEARTIES, YO HO: Along with birthdays for Margaret Cho, Walt Disney, Strom Thurmond, Joan Didion, Calvin Trillin, and adorable polar bear Knut, today also marks the 74th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. (A linkage? South Carolina was the only state to reject ratification of the 21st Amendment.)