There’s a great long article in the new NYT Magazine about a new chimp retirement complex partially funded by the Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance and Protection Act (passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 2000). The writer, Charles Siebert, has an unfortunate habit of referring to chimps as monkeys (they’re apes, duh), but otherwise it’s a fascinating read, yielding silly facts like adult chimps’ apparent fondness for Jerry Springer and General Hospital as well as making a strong, subtle case for spending taxpayer money on good homes for chimps that have spent much of their lives serving as subjects for our medical research or actors in our puerile entertainments.