Ben Bernanke got stuck with the check when he and President Obama went out to Five Guys for hamburgers yesterday. In a stroke of good luck for the Fed chairman, he got off scot free when they
couldn't break a trillion.
In a "truth in advertising" case, the Supreme Court decided 8-1 that from now on, all politicians must have two Facebook pages-Clarence Thomas dissenting.
In a related development, Justice Thomas filed the only dissent in The People vs. The Sky Is Blue, arguing it represented an unconstitutional usurpation of Crayola's proprietary rights.
Tiring of the endless election struggle, the state legislature in St.Paul has thrown in the towel and agreed to go forward with only one US senator. Governor Tim Pawlenty signed the bill, saying, "The rest of the Union can have their showy pair. We, in the great state of Minne, only need one."
Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett and Michael Jackson and Gale Storm are the latest inductees in the "Keith Richards Outlived Me???" game, which is rapidly eclipsing "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" as Hollywood's
favorite pastime.
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Okay, this is too hard. The stress is killing me. I tried telling my wife I needed a vacation, that the world is unfair to satirists and I need to go on strike.
"It's impossible to be funny anymore, sweetheart," I plead. "I need to go hike the Appalachian Trail."
"Is that a politician in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" she replied, thereby proving me wrong.
couldn't break a trillion.
In a "truth in advertising" case, the Supreme Court decided 8-1 that from now on, all politicians must have two Facebook pages-Clarence Thomas dissenting.
In a related development, Justice Thomas filed the only dissent in The People vs. The Sky Is Blue, arguing it represented an unconstitutional usurpation of Crayola's proprietary rights.
Tiring of the endless election struggle, the state legislature in St.Paul has thrown in the towel and agreed to go forward with only one US senator. Governor Tim Pawlenty signed the bill, saying, "The rest of the Union can have their showy pair. We, in the great state of Minne, only need one."
favorite pastime.
***
Okay, this is too hard. The stress is killing me. I tried telling my wife I needed a vacation, that the world is unfair to satirists and I need to go on strike.
"It's impossible to be funny anymore, sweetheart," I plead. "I need to go hike the Appalachian Trail."
"Is that a politician in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" she replied, thereby proving me wrong.
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