You think YOU'VE got troubles?

Pity poor Jay McCarthy. He thought the fire alarms he heard at his house were from lightning strikes, but the blogger-author of Makeoutcity.com ended up watching his house burn down right before his eyes. The last line of his account of the incineration explains why he may be out of commission for a while: "...right now, I could hold everything I own on my person. So blogging may be light and I may not get back to emails quickly." It's OK, Jay, we understand.

Moving up the blogging popularity scale is Morgan Spurlock's film Super Size Me, which is just now hitting theaters. Spurlock spent one month eating nothing but McDonald's food...and he details the results in a documentary. Read Spurlock's blog for more details.

In Fayetteville, Arkansas, the Duggar family is making room for one more Duggar offpsring. That brings the total to 15 children in the family, after Michelle Duggar (ranked third on today's bursty people list) gave birth to Jackson Duggar. All the kids have first names starting with "J." Joy!

And finally in today's "you think you've got troubles?" department, Peggy Noonan offers some insights on why writer E.L. Doctorow might have been booed off the stage while delivering Hofstra University's commencement address. Are graduation ceremonies appropriate venues for political speeches...or not? (Quick trivia quiz: do you remember who spoke at YOUR college commencement?)