Monday, February 12, 2007

Four years after being shunned by the country music establishment, The Dixie Chicks marked their triumphant return last night, receiving five Grammy Awards. Letting bygones be bygones, President Bush is calling it the biggest comeback since the Taliban’s rise in Afghanistan.

New Mexico will soon have talking urinal cakes that deliver a recorded anti-DWI message to bar patrons. The state hopes the special urinal cakes will cut down on the number of DWIs, while increasing the number of intoxicated men who think their talking penis’s are looking out for them.

Upstate New York is getting pounded with record snowfalls. They’ve gotten so many inches up there, Hillary Clinton has to travel with a snowplow just to backpedal around.

Oscar nominee Eddie Murphy’s new comedy, "Norbit", took in $33.7 million at the box office over the weekend, leading to the question: how much of a killing would "The Aretha Franklin Story" starring Eddie Murphy make?

A British woman had a diamond ring made from the ashes of her departed cat and dog. The woman says now, whenever she feels lonely, she can look down at the ring and realize she’ll be that way until she stops accessorizing with dead pets.