Archive for August, 2009

a mind is a terrible thing to waste

good thing one wasn’t wasted on glenn beck. he needs some help sounding out words–andy  is a pro at this. 


monday morning laughs, cause we need’em

it was a rough weekend with all the kennedy memorial coverage (check out some of the clips), the anniversary of katrina coverage and news of dj am’s death so let’s start off the week with a little monday morning laugh. i almost forgot about heidi montag’s miss universal i-wanna-be-britney performance until andy reminded me [...]


congrats julie

five years of bringing dates to tapings of fox news programs, andrew sansone married fox news’ fox report weekend’s host julie banderas this past saturday. guess he figured out why just come for a visit when you can bring it home with you.
check out the ny times wedding announcement video, if you can stand the [...]


let’s mess with texas

well, what i mean is, let’s mess with the 1M+ tons of plastic found floating in the north pacific gyre–a slow-moving clockwise vortex where four major ocean currents meet–the center of which is about the size of texas.  scientists from the scripps institute examining the gyre were flabbergasted when they found that although they were so [...]


it’s just potatoes, right?

demetri medvedev (president of russia) is calling for the russian people to ease up on the booze.  the president called russia’s booziness a “national calamity”.  here’s why:

38% of russians between  20 and 39 suffer are alcoholics, and 55% percent of those 40 to 59 are
30,000 people die each year from alcohol poisening
russians have just about doubled their [...]


sigh. again.

Edward Moore Kennedy: February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009
 
photo courtesy of the boston globe


i wonder if brody’s heard this

hard to believe that the words “news” and “brody” (as in jenner) are associated in any way but here goes. 
scientists have concluded that the once thought useless/gratuitous (vestigial) appendix is useful afterall. immunologist william parker a researcher at duke university medical center found that the appendix serves “as a vital safehouse where good bacteria could [...]