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Thursday, May 22, 2008

News Good Morning, News!

Posted by Wm. Steven Humphrey on Thu, May 22 at 9:25 AM

• Insiders for the Barack Obama campaign say he is on a top-secret search for his potential vice president. OOH! Pick me! Me! Me! Me!

• As gas prices rise astronomically, Ford Motor Company is cutting production on all new SUVs and trucks. Oh, no. What are the residents of Vancouver going to do?

• American Airlines announced today that it will begin charging $15 to check a piece of luggage. (And $47 if you don’t want your luggage lost.)

• A federal court has ruled that the military cannot automatically discharge someone for being gay. (Wouldn’t this make a warm-hearted hilarious movie starring Ellen DeGeneres?)

• In last night’s American Idol finale, weepy bartender David Cook soundly defeated squeaky Mormon David Archuleta by a whopping 12 million votes. Hear that, Mormons? Better start making more babies!

• Oh, and here’s David Cook already whoring himself out for a commercial for Guitar Hero. Hey, at least he’s not crying about it!

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Comments

They should instead charge for carry-on luggage. Carry-on takes up our precious room, and it slows everyone down when getting on and off the plane. Checked does none of this.

Posted by rom | May 22, 2008 12:27 PM

Thanks for the anti-'Couv stereotype, Humpy.

As I matter fact, I use bus and bike to get to and from work. Your stereotype serves only to split the region apart, which seems to be all the rage among Portland's hipper-than-thou.

Posted by Aneurin | May 22, 2008 12:44 PM

Look, everybody knows that Vancouverites are bringing truckloads of small pox blankets into our city EVERY DAY. So stop acting all effing innocent.

Posted by Wm. Steven Humphrey | May 22, 2008 1:44 PM

Curses! I've been found out!

Those pox ridden wool blankets stuffed into my panniers were inspired by my chief blanket trader, Dr. McLoughlin.

You will tremble at the might which is the Hudson's Bay Company!

Posted by Aneurin | May 22, 2008 2:52 PM