6/4

1. There’s going to be an auction for Elvis’s old prescription pill bottles. The largest expected bidders? Plastic recycling companies. There’s going to be enough there to keep them in business for years.

2. Wal-Mart plans to add 22,000 jobs this year. Unfortunately, they’re all in China.

3. An American court has decided that a two-hundred-year-old shipwreck belongs to Spain instead of a treasure-hunting company. Are they sure they want to set that precedent? I hear the next lawsuit is from Native Americans about some island called Manhattan.

4. In his trip to the Middle East, President Obama has tried to reach out to Muslims. Which is better than what the right-wing media has accused him, which is giving the Muslim world a reach-around.

5. There have been people saying that gay marriage might help the economy, because there will be a big wave of expensive weddings. But won’t that just be a giant circle, since many of the wedding planners are also gay? “We’ll pay you to do our wedding, if you pay us to do yours!”