The entertaining/controversial Chris Daly, who seems a bit quiet as of late, has a new target now: wafts of cigarette smoke. We're told that his latest push of legislation "calls for a smoking ban outside of restaurants, in waiting areas, within 20 feet of nonresidential buildings," and in common areas of apartment buildings. That is to say, you might have to look elsewhere to spark up that Capri or Virgina Slim while eating out.......

This just in--interrupting The View no less. Bah!--Senator Ted Kennedy (one of the leaders of the democratic party and tipsiest of the Kennedy clan) has been diagnosed with malignant brain tumor just days after having a seizure. He's got the brain cancer, folks. About half of the people with malignant brain tumors die within 18 months. Camelot, it seems, is almost all but gone now. Turn, turn, turn.......

The American Academy of Dermatology is launching a new campaign to get girls from 16 to 29 years old (and boys in the same age range who live in district 5) to stop using indoor tanning beds. The campaign is called, fittingly enough, "Indoor Tanning is Out." How so? Because: a) only trash uses indoor tanning facilities, and b) indoor browning is associated with a significant increase in the risk of melanoma. (Though we......