Friday, February 9, 2007

Russel Crowe cut his rugby league club's entire cheerleading squad. The star complained they detract from the game, but mostly, they just cheered liked a bunch of girls.

A Snickers commercial aired during the Super Bowl has been pulled after complaints that it was homophobic, while a General Motors ad featuring a robot dreaming about jumping off a bridge is catching heat from the suicide-prevention groups. In other words, it was not a good Superbowl for gay Bears fans contemplating suicide.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Bush administration is trying to soften its tone with Tehran. In fact, Iran will now be referred to as part of the “Axis of not so bad once you get to know them”.

A new report has concluded that a Pentagon office’s pre-war intelligence work linking up Iraq and al Qaeda was not illegal, but “inappropriate”. So, it was kind of like farting at the dinner table, if that fart helps sell a long, bloody and unpopular war.

Airline tycoon Richard Branson is offering a $25 million prize for the first person to come up with a way of ridding the atmosphere of greenhouse gases. President Bush upped the ante, saying anyone who gets rid of greenhouse gases gets to explain to him what green houses gasses are.