1. Southwest Airlines gave a refund to a woman who was kicked off a flight because her son would not stop screaming. However, the refund was offset by the next day’s 2000% increase in reservations by grateful travelers.
2. Jon Gosselin said in an interview yesterday that he doesn’t understand why he’s famous. Welcome back to the rest of humanity. He said he’s going to “slow things down” with his girlfriend Hailey Glassman, after Glassman said on national TV that Gosselin was emotionally abusive and threw “mantrums”. Because by reality TV standards, that’s just breakfast conversation. He also said that he got “intoxicated by celebrity” – followed by another shocking revelation that he is an air-breathing mammal.
3. The highest-ever price for a stamp was paid yesterday for a 41-year-old Chinese stamp celebrating Communism. That’s like the government passing out free novels by Ayn Rand.
4. A new study shows that people who eat mostly processed foods have a much higher risk of depression. But maybe they’re just depressed because they’ve got no one to cook them a meal.
5. The winner of the New York Marathon this year is an American! Yay! Who was raised in the African nation of Eritrea and didn’t become a citizen until 1998. Finally, we’re following the lead of baseball and making the rest of the world our farm team.
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