Thursday, May 29, 2008

BEST OF THE WEEK

Microsoft has introduced its first operating system where users touch the screen (not including Microsoft users who have been ‘touching’ screens with their fists).

Apparently, Hillary Clinton is talking a lot about her religious faith during the Democratic primary in Puerto Rico, because it’s going to take a miracle for her to get the nomination.

A new study says when elderly people can’t remember new names, it’s not because their brains are getting worse -- they’re just getting better at filtering out the boring people. This helps explain why my parents keep forgetting my name.

The nation of Nepal voted to completely abolish its monarchy yesterday, which puts Nepal ahead of such backward nations as Great Britain, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Maybe one day the British will be free too.

Scientists now say that people with attention deficit disorder do 22 fewer days of work each year than people who don’t have it. Or maybe it was 23 days. I wasn’t really concentrating.

A new study says that combat-related stress is on the rise in American soldiers. Yeah, I wonder if that has anything to do with us being at war.

The obesity epidemic among American kids might have peaked. Which is great news for people starving around the world. Maybe there’ll be more food for them now.

On Sunday, a Canadian skydiver will set a new record by falling from almost 25 miles high. It will be the longest and fastest free fall since the reputation of Bill Clinton.

The Russian Communist Party wants to ban the new Indiana Jones movie, because they say: “In 1957, the Communists did not run with crystal skulls throughout the U.S.” Do they realize this is also a movie where 60-year-old Harrison Ford leaps from ledge to ledge like Spider-Man? And as any student of modern history knows, in the 1950s, the Communists were running around America with Hitler’s preserved brain.

The classic painting “The Scream” is now back on display after being stolen a few years ago. The painting, of course, depicts a recent Democratic voter.

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