News Bits!

A professor at UC Davis was awarded a grant to study the relationship between music and emotion. For instance- why do some people get turned on by R. Kelly while it makes us other people want to vomit?
Every kid's dream came true for 6-year-old Michael James Emanuel Jr. who was left behind at a Chuck E. Cheese on his birthday. His 23-year-old mother didn't even realize Junior was missing until the following morning.
A survey administered in the US apparently indicates that us young folk like the iPods more than the beer. We call bullshit, we want proof. An iPod has no power to get one laid.
A ~~man~~ woman in prison for murdering ~~his~~ her wife is suing the state in an attempt to get them to foot the bill for a sex change. Now, in an all-male prison, we wonder what fantasies are going to get fulfilled.
Your mom can't tell you that smoking pot is going to give you cancer the same way she warns you about cigarettes. A recent study reveals that there is not a correlation between the two. Couch-potato-syndrome, however, is yet to be dertermined.
KISS sells out! (Like that's new.) But this time it's...weird.
The World Cup starts today! Time to go out with your mates, get pished at the bar, get in a swedge with the blokes wearing the wrong colored scarves, then stagger home and pass out before the match starts. reference.
Carole Keeton Strayhorn wants to be listed as Grandma on the ballot, but the law says that a candidate has to be known by that nickname for at least 3 years. Kinky Friedman calls it a campaign slogan and inappropriate for the ballot.