5-24-2012
CELLAR
DWELLERS -- CNN has reached their lowest Nielsen viewership in fifteen years with
“Piers Morgan Tonight” drawing a paltry 39,000 viewers in the coveted 29-54
demographic. Here’s how desperate things
are over there right now. Yesterday, they
seriously considered letting Wolf Blitzer go and hiring “Jersey Shore’s” The
Situation to host “The Situation Room.”
LABEL LIBEL
-- The government of Iran is threatening to sue Google for failing to label the
Persian Gulf on their Google Maps website.
The objection recalls Iran’s criticism of the U.S. Military for calling
the same body of water “The Arabian Gulf.”
Google responded by threatening to label it “The Oprah Winfrey Gulf” so
nobody would search for it.
GOING POSTAL -- According to a recent
report from the Government Accounting Office assessing the most badly-managed
federal offices, the U.S. Postal Service loses $25 million every day. And that’s in addition to all the mail they
can’t find.
TRAY TRAPPINGS -- Boeing’s new 787
“Dreamliner” carries more passengers with greater fuel efficiency thanks to the
new lightweight plastics used in its construction. Technology has sure come a long way, hasn’t it? Just a few years ago, who would have dreamed
that we’d be riding on a plane made out of the same thing we’re eating off of
in Tourist?
A baseball fan named Caleb Lloyd pulled off one of the most historic feats in the history of major league baseball. In the center field stands for a night game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds, he caught a homer hit by pitcher Mike Leake in the fourth inning and then caught Zack Cozart's round-tripper minutes later. MLB statisticians place the odds of such an occurrence as so astronomical, it's completely off the charts -- about the same odds, say, as the Chicago Cubs winning a game.
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