It's Your Baby, You Rock It

1. Did you check out John Weyler's If not, do so. It's all about the joys of baby showers.

2. Life expectancy is Rancho Santa Margarita , so we asked a couple of city leaders what they thought about living 1½ years less than their neighbors in Lake Forest and Mission Viejo. We'll have that story later today.

3. There are more incidents of people throwing objects at cars in this week's , but the real jewel is the mistake that an alert utility person made when noticing something right out of the movies.

4. On this date in history, Feb. 8, 1943, Japanese troops surrendered the island of Guadalcanal, giving the Allies a vital airbase in the Pacific in WWII. In 1587, Mary, queen of Scots, was beheaded for her complicity in a plan to kill Queen Elizabeth I. In 1958, Bobby Fischer became the world's youngest international grandmaster of chess at age 15. In 1990, singer Del Shannon died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound five days earlier. In 1994, Jack Nicholson took a golf club to a windshield in a Southern California act of road rage.

5. Celebrating birthdays today are Seth Green (37), Vince Neil (50), Robert Klein (69), Nick Nolte (70), Ted Koppel (71) and composer John Williams (79). Others who had birthdays on this date were the Gary Coleman (1968), James Dean (1931), Jack Lemmon (1925), Audrey Meadows (1924), Lana Turner (1921) and Jules Verne (1828).

For What It's Worth: It's International Expect Success Month, and there are only two days left in Boy Scout Anniversary Week. It's also Extraterrestrial Culture Day.