…to the hospital
…in the middle of the freaking night

CNN reports the planning for Operation Dumbo Drop took the better part of the day and a significant number of “police brass,” and the words “more train derailments than Amtrak” don’t quite fit, but they’re the first words to come to mind. No word on why she [...]

Mitt Romney in the hood. (link includes video)
Jacksonville, FL
Governor Romney paid tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. when speaking to a group of employees at Gate Petroleum today and then shook hands and posed for photos with African-American families at a parade.
He jumped off the Mitt Mobile to greet a waiting crowd, took a [...]

Video At Gawker
“We are the authorities on getting people off drugs”
“We are the authorities on the mind”
“We are the authorities on improving conditions”
“We can rehabilitate criminals”
“We can bring peace and unite cultures”
This video’s been passed around privately by reporters and writers investigating Cruise’s ties with Scientology. Most reporters have been wary of taking on the [...]

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Then he uses her quote “This is a new day. This is a new state.” to try to imply … what? That she want’s a “new order”? Or is she just saying “new state” as in “New Hampshire”?
Drudge is a funny guy.
In related news, Hillary hates Iowa now.
“Iowa does not have the best [...]

Spears taken in ambulance after standoff; Gives Her Kids to K-Fed

oops, I screwed up again. and again. and again.
Britney Spears was taken from her home in an ambulance after a custodial standoff involving her children that lasted nearly three hours. She was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Officer Jason Lee of the Los Angeles Police [...]

Another Odd Year Goes By.
Lots of crap went down in 2007. Much of it disturbing - Bhutto’s assassination, the Virginia Tech massacre, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, Microsoft Vista.
Some of it was funny. Or strange. Or both.
Here are the top 10 oddest stories:
10. Bad Newz: Michael Vick gets busted for dogfighting.

In July, Atlanta QB Michael Vick is [...]

From BBC News:
An essay that won a six-year-old girl tickets to a Hannah Montana concert has been exposed as a fake. The essay began with the line: “My daddy died this year in Iraq”.

Wanna know a secret? Promise not to tell…
Priscilla Ceballos authored an essay which she now admits is fake, stating that her [...]

I will rule the world!
There’s a movie called Santa Claus about a big fat guy in a red suit named Santa Claus. Every year he brings presents to all the good little children around the world.
So far so good, yes?
Well, not if you’re talking about the Mexican Santa Claus, which, as MST3K commented, is just [...]

So, who the hell is Casey Aldridge?
Casey Aldridge is the 19-year old soon-to-be-father of Jamie Lynn Spears’ baby.
He’s a 19-year-old pipe layer; a deer-hunting, dirt-bike-riding former high school class president who still lives in his tiny Mississippi hometown. Casey Aldridge is an expectant father - and the mother is 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears. To hear [...]

“Don’t Tase Me, Bro” tops ‘07 memorable quote list:
Top 5 Memorable Quotes of 2007
1. Andrew Meyer (tasered at John Kerry speech): “Don’t Tase Me, Bro”

2. Lauren Upton, (the South Carolina contestant in the Miss Teen America contest, asked why 1/5 of Americans can’t locate the US on a map):
“I personally believe that U.S. [...]