President Obama addressed the nation’s students in a back-to-school address. Actually, President Bush was better at this than Obama. Bush was on the same level as schoolchildren.
New research shows that moths, caterpillars and fruit flies could soon take the place of mice used in scientific testing of drugs. But, it also raises new side effects such as a night time obsession with the porch light.
“The Beatles: Rock Band” will be released today. But, be careful. Buy the original. On the street there are already pirated editions called “Beatlemania: Rock Band.”
Federal authorities say a Brooklyn man ran a Ponzi scheme for 31 years. The money was sunk into bad real estate deals and to run a mail-order pornography business. Well, he figured that while he was screwing people they might as well get a happy ending.
Amazon.com is offering free books or $30 to customers whose copies of George Orwell’s “1984″ were deleted from their electronic Kindle reading devices. Ironic, but Orwell predicted this would happen.
A Salt Lake City woman who held a Guinness World Record for her long fingernails had them broken off in a car crash. She hadn’t cut them in 30 years. But, on the bright side she can now finish typing that letter she started in 1979.
A 19-year-old woman in Florida was accused of taking $7 in change from a car parked at a police station. She was confused and thought Obama’s program was called “Cash from Clunkers.”
Police arrested a woman in Alaska accused of shoving her friend out of a moving vehicle. The two had been drinking at a bar. We know it wasn’t Sara Palin. She would have quit before the shove was completed.
President Obama addressed the nation’s students in a back-to-school address. Then afterward he invited them all back to the White House for a Root Beer.

