News update

American students get obesity report cards: NYT.

Related: Nick Martin sounds off on new provincial requirement that schools develop nutrition policies: Telling Tales Out of School (his blog).

Mark Twain — the father of the Internet: the tyee.

SK editor under fire over joke about women: CBC.

*"Women are like guns, keep one around long enough and you're going to want to shoot it" is the joke.

CP reports sextuplets (kind of): CP

*"A woman has given birth to sextuplets at a Vancouver hospital, a source has confirmed to The Canadian Press. No other details are being revealed but sources have told two Vancouver news outlets . . . "

Dinner lady death driver jailed: BBC.

*The story with the "best" headline of the day goes on to chastise the "heroin user" and "'thoroughly amoral individual'" responsible.

Photoshopped image of Portage La Prairie MP David Faurschou from Mia Rabson's FP blog On The Ledge.

Image of the creepiest Sun Girl in a while, from the Edmonton Sun.