"I'm (not) In Love With A 'Stripper"

This is what the second stripper looks like from the Duke-did-someone-get-raped-by-the-lacrosse-team scandal. Hmmmm. I think I'd rather hire someone from New Orleans' Nights if I knew where that was.

Number Crunching Gives Me Tired Head

From The Update: ROBIN HOOD - Decatur Superintendent Gary Gindt said Thursday, the Decatur school system should prepare to begin paying into the Robin Hood system next year. He said the district is likely to get Chapter 41 status, meaning the district would collect more than $305,000 per student in property taxes, which would make it subject for state recapturing. From an email: By my calculations, with 2,813 students in the DISD, the budget should be a little over $857,000,000 . . . . I don't think that's accurate . . . .

Nothing Like A Liquored Flight

So American Airlines gave away free tickets at the basketball game the other day? Southwest Airlines strikes back by giving away, on all of its flights, free......BOOZE.

The Great Robert Smith . . .

. . . of The Cure is 47 today.

An What Exactly Is That?

Vanna White has received a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. "I remember my parents telling me, at the age of 10, `You can do anything you want.'" Dad, we did it!" said White, 49,

Safe Happens

I love the new Jetta commercials that show normal folks driving down the road having a normal conversation and then......WHAM.....a crash happens. It's soooo jolting. The commercial touts the safety of the vehicle under a campaign labeled "Safe Happens". Youtube has one of them here.

Good News For Old Guys

Julio Franco, who played for the Texas Rangers from 1989 to 1993, hit a home run last night for the New York Mets. At age 47, he is the oldest Major League Baseball player to ever do so.

That Should Solve The Problem

"In [an] action on Wednesday, federal officials detained 1,187 illegal immigrants working in 26 states for IFCO Systems North America . . . . " What a coincidence! I'm sure this has nothing to do with the public outcry over illegal immigration. That leaves 11.999 million to go.

"Henny Penny"

Check out this great youtube clip from Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld used the odd phrase of "henny penny" to dismiss news reports that the U.S. would invade Iran [edited] because of its nuclear weapons threat. I wonder if he has ever used the phrase "henny penny" before? Hilarity ensues.

Celebrity Cooking Showdown

Did any of you see this show the last three nights? I caught maybe five minutes of it, and it was horrible. A lot of "stars" running around a kitchen on a stage while an audience in the background exuded fake excitement and cheers. In one of the quickest axes I've seen in a while, NBC cancelled it after three shows (it was supposed to run tonight and Friday as well). "Hope and Fatih" [edited] is running in its place (not that that's much better).

Hold Me

"Fake Breast Doc" Might Be A Little Hard To Pull Off

This guy comes up with a brilliant scam that two women actually fell for.

Do You See "Good" Or "Evil"?

No Naked Bears

Baylor University is threatening to sanction any of its female students that pose for Playboy. I remember the same controversy erupting in the late 1970s. Some things never change.

Boom

I personally like being awakened at night due to a thunderstorm.

"Jump The Shark"

You often hear about how a television show has gone just a little too far when it has "jumped the shark". That's a reference to the Happy Days episode when Fonzie, literally, jumped a shark on water skiis. I have heard about for years, but never saw it. Until now. (And by the way, if you watch the show now you can only come to one conclusion: That was one bad TV show).

Rocket Man

A little bit of a gift tonight at the final Dallas Mavericks' regular season game at American Airlines. Between the first and second quarter it was announced that every fan in attendance would receive a voucher for one round trip ticket to anywhere American Airlines flies out of Love Field airport. That kinda limits your choices: Austin, San Antonio, Kansas City or St. Louis. But it's still pretty cool. In other news, American announced that it lost $92 million in the first three months of this year. Source: AA's press release

As You Pay $3.00 A Gallon

Lee Raymond, recently retired CEO of Exxon, has been in the news a lot lately once it was revealed he had been paid $686 million over 13 years for his fine service to the company. That comes to $144,573 a day. (And he'd probably want this photo re-shot).