Sunday, May 1, 2011

News at 10...

This just in...

The headline could have read, "Trump trumped." Birther and big-mouthed bully of a candidate for president Donald Trump got trumped by President Obama who produced the long form of his birth certificate after Trump exploited the falsehoods about it for his own political gains.

Donald Trump wins the Sage Street "Keep Blabbering and Spin" award for saying he was proud to do something so important as to get Obama to release the long form of his birth certificate. Ah, Mr. Trump, Obama didn't need to release it as the short form, which is the legal document used by Hawaii, was already available and then there were also those birth announcements in old newspapers. Of course, those facts probably wouldn't matter for crazy people who just don't want to believe the facts. Congratulations, Mr. Trump, on your award. It comes with a huge wad of bubblegum (to keep your mouth busy).

Pope John Paul (the some Roman numeral) took one step closer to sainthood, while most everyone else on Earth, as is likely in life, took steps farther away from sainthood.

Catherine "Kate" Middleton married Prince William Arthur Philip Louis Mortimer (what the heck is his last name?) in a royal wedding this past week in Great Britain. (Note: I just made up the "Mortimer" part, and I'm not so sure about the other names either.) I know their last name isn't Mr. and Mrs. Queen Elizabeth's Grandchildren. Hmmm??!

The U.S. news media wasted all kinds of time leading up to, during, and following the royal wedding of the future king of England. It got to the point where the TV reporters were talking about the royal wedding biscuits (cookies in America), the royal dresses and uniforms, the royal hats, the royal number of times that Will vacuums in their home, the royal squirrels that live in the trees near their home, and the royal pains that royalty produces.

Oh, and by the way, more American soldiers were killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but that news was overlooked while the TV media counted flowers at the royal wedding.

"Dangelavidize" is one of the newest words in the English language and placed here for the very first time. It means "to search the dictionaries and Google for something and not be able to find it." Used in a sentence: Have you ever dangelavidized successfully? (Note: The word was recently created on Facebook by the editor of Sage Street just to see if a new word would spread and find its way to popularity and a dictionary.)

There are many blockbuster movies for the summer that will feature comic book superheroes. Thirteen-year-old boys are ecstatic.

The latest episode of "Celebrities Chasing Squirrels" features Donald Trump telling a squirrel to turn in his nuts because he's fired.

1 comment:

  1. David -- Congratulations on winning the McCallum teaching award. You richly deserve it, and the recognition for your contribution to teaching is long overdue.
    Claudia M.

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