Monday in Washington President Obama held his first cabinet meeting. It all went smoothly, except for when Joe Biden screwed up Obama’s coffee order.
President Obama is going to appear shirtless on the cover of the May issue of The Washingtonian magazine. Not to be outdone, Joe Biden is going to appear on the cover of the June issue without his hair plugs.
The New York Times won five Pulitzer Prizes in journalism on Monday – the second-most in its history. The good news is they won five Pulitzers; the bad news is they won because they’re the only newspaper still in business.
On Monday, dozens of Western diplomats walked out of a U.N. conference on racism while Iran’s leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized Israel. After they walked out the only people left were diplomats from some Arab countries and Mel Gibson.
A rare, 7.03-carat blue diamond is expected to be sold at auction this week for $8.5 million. Experts say it could go for even more if Kobe Bryant has an affair this weekend.
The U.S. Army has officially joined Twitter. It’s all part of their new “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tweet” policy.
Scientists in England announced this week that fat people are a major cause of global warming. They also found that fat people are a major cause of ice cream shortages at Dairy Queen.
Scientists in England announced this week that fat people are a major cause of global warming. They say the best way to reduce global warming is for fat people to lose weight, or to at least cut back on spicy food.
In a piece on the Huffington Post, Ron Howard wrote that William Donohue of the Catholic League is on a mission to paint his movie “Angels & Demons” as anti-Catholic. He ended the piece by telling Donohue to sit on it.
A British teenager playing an online Playstation 3 boxing game discovered that his opponent was Floyd Mayweather. The kid said he became suspicious that he fighting a real boxer when after the fight Don King demanded a 10% cut of his winnings.
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