August 30, 2007
News Bits
- New Yorker Leona ("Queen of Mean") Helmsley seals her fate as a heartless biatch by leaving $12 million, the majority of her will, to her dog.
- Lindsay Lohan checklist: Coke possession. Check. Arrested. Check. Sex Scene? Check!
- With his last official day of work approaching this Friday, Karl Rove's car got Saran Wrapped and slapped with an I Heart Obama sticker.
- Straight out of the 18th century--drug dealer gets tarred, feathered while holding a sign saying "I'm a drug dealing scumbag" (with picture).
- Bad: 20 million condoms recalled in South Africa. Worse: Condom company bribed government to certify them in the first place.
- The Northwest Passage is now ice-free for the first time in recorded history.
- The bidding for Barry Bonds' #755 & #756 opens today.
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"Recorded history" being...?
OH, 1972. wow. that's longer than those beautybar kids have been dressing themselves.
Happy Birthday, LB!!!
Somebody doesn't know their history.
The nearly mythic Northwest Passage was sought from sometime in the 1500s until it was finally achieved early in the 20th Century.
It took so long because seas were packed with ice and expeditions were perilous. Many explorers lost their lives.