Ted Kennedy Has a Stroke.

No joke, he's had a stroke. Earlier in the week it made me feel like Rip Van Winkle to read that James Garner was 80 and that he had a stroke. And now to read that Teddy Kennedy is 76 and that this morning he was rushed from the Kennedy's Hyannisport Compound to Massaschussets General Hospital in Boston.

It seems like we've gone awhile without a sad thing happening to the Kennedy's. We are coming up on the June 6 anniversary of Bobby Kennedy's assassination in 1968.

Teddy has had some health issues. He has a slight weight problem. Last October he was operated on to remove a blockage in a neck artery. He has been on high blood pressure and cholesterol meds. Teddy has had a bad back ever since a plane crash in 1964, compounded by an accident that required a lot of alleged swimming and diving that is known as The Chappaquiddick Incident. After driving off a bridge into the Atlantic Ocean, Kennedy testified to diving 7 or 8 times in attempts to rescue his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. When he decided it was fruitless Kennedy swam to shore, exhausted, with an aching back.

I hope both Teddy and James Garner have full recoveries.