News Bits and other Tripe!
- An asteroid could hit Mars next month prompting Mars' threat level to move to Orange.
- Riots erupt in New Orleans over the demolition of public housing buildings. Why can't New Orleans get a chance to relax?
- Hearings have been set regarding the destruction of the CIA torture tapes. Bush claims to be totally ignorant about everything, especially this and especially you!
- Mike Devlin gets an additional 170 years for kidnapping and sexually assaulting two Missouri boys. He is going to be so popular in prison.
- Britney Spears' sister is pregnant and why the hell is this news worthy? Wait, we just posted about it. We like trashy women. In other trashy women news, Paris Hilton's dog just whizzed on an electric fence.
- A real live mummy was spotted in Las Vegas! Seriously!
- Peter Jackson will oversee the production of The Hobbit. Blog sites are buzzing about Sam Raimi, Guillermo del Toro or Alfonso Cuarón Orozco possibly occupying the director's chair. We are so freakin' excited!
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