7/28/09

North Korea opened its first fast-food restaurant in Pyongyang, and
sells “minced beef and bread” for $1.70 - which explains the
restaurant's slogan: "I'm Lovin' It???"

President Obama is trying to lower the tension between Cambridge
Police Sergeant James Crowley and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates
by inviting them to the White House for a beer this week. If the
meeting goes well, Obama says he'll try inviting Kim Jung Il and
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over for karaoke night.

Obama will have a Budweiser and Sergeant Crowley will drink Blue Moon.
No word yet on Gates’ choice of beer yet but Sgt. Crowley suggested a
40 oz.

At Comic-Con - fans demanded that scenes from next spring’s “Iron Man
2” be shown twice. After the first screening, the fans started
chanting, "hell no, we won't go... 'til our parents come, and pick us
up!"

The situation got so out of hand that the Department of Homeland
Security had to issue a "Nerd Alert."

Sarah Palin officially stepped down Sunday as Governor of Alaska.
Asked what she'll miss most about being Governor of Alaska, she said,
"the quitting."

Sarah Palin attended three picnics in three days this weekend before
leaving office – one in her hometown of Wasilla on Friday, the second
in Anchorage on Saturday, and the third in Fairbanks on Sunday. It's
all part of her new job as host of the Food Network series, "Diners,
Drive-in's and Picnics."

Happy 66th Birthday to rock n' roll legend Mick Jagger of the Rolling
Stones. Nowadays when he sings "Satisfaction", he's usually talking
about having a solid bowel movement.

... Just like when bandmate Keith Richards turned 66, Jagger received
a birthday phonecall from President Carter.

Over the weekend, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he was forced
to quit Facebook because too many people wanted to be his friend. Too
many friends, huh? You know who CAN'T relate to that, 12 year old Bill Gates!