Elvis Aaron Presley was born in the southern town of Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8th, 1935.

It might seem remote; it might seem difficult; it might be a world away from the arcane mumblings of Nancy Pelosi and Michael Steele; but unless you are a psychopath, you care.

"Those who say they are affected are the product of a collective psychosis," Jorge Lopez Tejada, health department chief in Puno, the nearest large city, told the Los Angeles Times.