Margaret News

It's all over for another year. Onwards to Denmark! 23.16 I think I am going to start writing up the story announcing the winner.

Obituaries can make you cry. The one that ran two weeks ago in The Oregonian, the newspaper in Portland, Ore., for Margaret Groening made me smile.

When asked if he considers himself "rich," tall, graying Dr. Michael Dillon hesitates but admits he might be "comfortable." This brings an immediate rejoinder from a scruffy visitor to his office, Margie Walsh : "That makes me uncomfortable." We get the pun right way.

This week on The Big Three, we tackled the George W. Bush library opening, frustration over flight furloughs and Dean Obeidallah's CNN.com column , "I'm a Muslim and I hate terrorism," which seems sadly necessary in the wake of Boston.