tuesday night and it's time for headlines!

these are the actual headlines from my actual yahoo portal page. portal? what? even IT people don't say portal anymore, ace, you complete loser! okay, whatever it is that people are calling these aggregated home page conglomerations, i use yahoo, and these are the headlines from that page today.



firstly, strongman? what is this, a circus? from 1905? and what the hell is he doing in a bunker? what happened to the freak show tent, did it blow away?

budget, blah blah, nothing funny there.

oh, there's a headline: Japan sets new radiation safety level for seafood (AP) japan is having a wee containment issue over there and the best possible solution is to dump some of the less harmful water that was used to cool the meltdowning reactors back into the ocean, to make room in the containers for the more harmful water. this less harmful water has some sort of iodine isotope in it that will degrade in a few months. i thought iodine was that orange stuff you put on cuts, so i was a bit surprised to hear how dangerous it is. but anyway, the safety level used to be fairly strict, but the new level is all, hey, it'll put hair on your chest! and, your tongue, and the soles of your feet....

storms kill 7. not funny.

libyan rebels. not funny.

then we get to the white house raps. this is an interesting approach to resolving the budget stalemate but i am fairly certain rhythmic rhyming is not going to get us anywhere.

and, last but not least, the italian prime minister silvio berlusconi could lose his job over a sex scandal. my first thought was all, haha - only in italy could the leader keep his job in the face of a scandal like that! and, then i remember ol' mr clinton, and that shut me right up.