Color Me Amused

For your Labor Day entertainment ... Note: All tidbits heard on this weekend's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! God Bless NPR ... linked a few if you want the whole story.

• In a rant on his video blog Sean "Diddy" Combs revealed that high gas prices have forced him to fly commercial. Poor Diddy! What's next ... only 8 cars in the entourage? What a shame! And then he makes a plea to his Saudi brothers and sisters ... heh sure thing Diddy.
(Here's the rant for your viewing pleasure)

• Apparently, a fella named Jason Slagel was holding 5 people hostage in an Iowa motel and was arrested after the Brilliance sent two of the hostages out to buy beer, and held them to their honor that they would come back! I tell you, people just aren't as reliable as they used to be.

• In Brazil, a couple of thieves broke into a woman's car and ended up leaving some money for her on the seat after they realized what bad shape the vehicle was in. Who said chivalry was dead?

• In order to break up a drug smuggling ring in Bosnia, police have thrown one of the biggest culprits behind bars ... a drug smuggling pigeon who brought the goods to prisoners. Hehehehehe that's too good.

• An elderly woman at an airport in Sweden misunderstood instructions for the baggage chute and instead of putting her bags down it, put herself down the chute. That silly old bag ;)

• And last, but most certainly not least, it seems Alaska's Republican Gov. Sarah Palin — also McCain's new running mate — has a 17-year-old daughter who is unmarried and preggy. I can't wait to see what surfaces next. Guess that's what happens when you pick a VP who you've only met once in person. Of course, I imagine it's only because they're super conservative that anyone actually cares about this. Maybe if they had some sex ed and condoms in their schools ... oh, but wait, conservatives don't support that because it encourages pre-marital sex. And we know kids don't have sex. I'll lay off this now, but there's a funny bit here about the baby's daddy. Again, had they been a more liberal, they could have let her raise the kid alone and kept this brilliant father out of the picture all together.

I guess that's it for today ...