Friday, January 30, 2009

Week of 1/30/09

Mexican law enforcement officers arrested a dozen high-ranking government officials for alleged ties to a drug cartel in a raid codenamed “Operation Clean House.” So for those keeping score: That’s12 Mexican officials in jail, and millions of Mexican cleaning ladies scared shitless.

A region southwest of Anchorage, Alaska was rocked over the weekend by an earthquake, but luckily nobody was hurt. The quake registered 6.1 on the Richter scale but on the Palin scale, it registered an, “Oh gosh, you betcha that was scary.”

In his annual message for the World Day of Communication, Pope Benedict praised the social networking site Facebook as a "gift to humanity". At the end of his address, the Pope broke with tradition and instead of waving to the crowd of onlookers, he Superpoked them.

A celebrity-boxing match between admitted steroid user Jose Canseco and former child star Danny Bonaduce ended in a draw despite a noticeable size difference in the fight. To clarify, when I say “noticeable size difference” I’m not referring to the height of the fighters, I’m talking about the size of Conseco’s testicles.

George Bush’s twin daughters wrote Sasha and Malia Obama a note about what to expect while living in the Whitehouse. Some pieces of advice the Bush daughters offered included:
- “When your dad throws out the first pitch for the Yankees, go to the game.”
- “Slide down the banister of the solarium and play Sardines on the White House lawn.”
- And “When you dad is hiding under his desk from the Vice President, don’t blow his cover.”

Joe Torre’s new book about his tenure in New York named, “The Yankee Years” contains many shocking claims about Alex Rodriguez. Among them: Torre describes A-Rod as a prima donna, says his teammates called him “A-Fraud” and exposed Rodriguez’s pre-game ritual of standing in front of his locker and singing “Like a Virgin” into his comb.

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