In lieu of the Friday quiz, an introduction | Michael Tomasky

As I intimated on Wednesday, I've been a touch preoccupied this week. Now you see why. Margot Julianna Kerr Tomasky made this troubled world a wee bit brighter at 1:52 on Tuesday afternoon, July 6, checking in at 6 lbs, 2 oz. On the celebrity-birthday front, I was hoping she could wait one more day, so that she would share Ringo's birthday and not George W Bush's, but what the hell: someday far into the future maybe they'll note via asterisk that it was Bush who was born on her birthday.