Let's all lick a "stamp" in celebration of Albert Hofmann's 100th birthday. Who's that, you ask? You'll probably be surprised:

LSD is an unlikely subject for a 100th birthday party. Yet the Swiss chemist who discovered the mind-altering drug and was its first human guinea pig is celebrating his centenary Wednesday — in good health and with plans to attend an international seminar on the hallucinogenic.

I don't celebrate his discovery of LSD, I celebrate his upcoming seventy-first wedding anniversary. Let's hear it for ladies willing to put up with eccentric loons!