Thursday, April 02, 2009

Morning links 4/2/09

-The Obamas gave The Queen an iPod filled with classical music and photographs. (ABC)

-Some people are planning a protest march on Wall Street this Friday. (Choire Sicha)

-Former Alaskan senator Ted Stevens has been freed after being convicted for all sorts of political corruption crimes. (NPR)

-72 year-old soap opera Guiding Light is being canceled. (CBS)

-Today is the first day that you can register for this year's international grilled cheese cooking contest. (Grilledcheeseinvitational.com)

-A New Orleans man faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 for jerking off on a plane DURING THE ENTIRE DURATION OF HIS FLIGHT! (Nola.com)

-John Calipari is the new basketball coach at Kentucky. (Lexington Herald Leader)

-The House Republicans have decided to offer up some numbers for the hideous joke of a budget plan they submitted last week. (Washington Post)

-Everybody wants Jay Cutler to be the quarterback of their football team. (Chicago Tribune)

-The number of older users on Facebook has doubled in the last 60 days. (Online Media Daily)

-Wired magazine is laying off employees. (Business Insider)

-Is Nikki Finke a modern day Joseph McCarthy? (The Wrap)

-Roger Clemens has blond highlights in his head. (Deadspin)

-Former Saint Donte Stallworth is being charged with DUI manslaughter after running over a man in Miami. (Miami Herald)

-The hot new jeans for men with big bootys. (Applebottomsmen.com)

3 comments:

Mac G said...

I just found out that the Ipod gift and Michelle touching the Queen has the set the media/Drudge/Fox News world off.

So fn Dumb.

Fancy Schmancy said...

My 70 year old aunt friended me on FaceBook last week. Now I know how my 14 year old felt when my sister friended him!

Jennifer Leigh said...

Um...I think Nelly shouldn't speak:
"Yo, SL- everyone knows AppleBottoms makes the flyest women's wear and celebrity wear (Oprah, Fergie, etc!). We should get that shit up on men!"