FRI, SAT, SUN, November 26, 27, 28

Queen Elizabeth I promised to pay for her son’s wedding but will pass on the record security tab to the taxpayers.  Can’t really blame her.  Her attitude is “You made Amy Winehouse famous, now you pay to keep her out.”

Grateful Dead founder Jerry Garcia’s California manse is up for sale  with an asking price of $4 million, even though the rock legend bought it for $250,000.  There’s a good chance Jerry’s no longer grateful to be dead.

Undercover vice officers in New York City recently arrested several chess players in Central park and charged them with illegal gambling.  The international Chess Federation just approved a new opening move --  “Bishop to Precinct 47.”

Sarah Palin told Fox News “I want to clean up the state, that is so sorry today, of journalism and I have a communications degree.”  Please -- working summers stringing telephone cable for Exxon hardly qualifies as a communications degree.

When asked by a reporter if he’d ever consider a presidential run, Donald Trump admitted that he hasn’t ruled it out in 2012.  Political pundits will be watching closely to see if he really intends to toss his hair in the ring.