Because of its current economic problems, General Motors has ended its 22-year support for Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. As a result, Burns is dropping his current project for a new documentary called “Michael Moore Was Right.”
President Obama has overturned the Bush policy banning research on stem cells. Former President Bush says he doesn’t mind since he thought it was a ban on stencils.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke attended a morning meeting on the economy with President Obama. The president knew things were bad when he caught Bernanke checking the White House couches for loose change.
President Obama's Kenyan step-grandmother is using her celebrity status to help her village stamp out tsetse flies, the insect that causes sleeping sickness. She has a bottle full of pesticide that she sprays on flies, fly-carrying animals and anyone she catches listening to Rush Limbaugh.
Senator Joe Lieberman, who campaigned for Republican presidential candidate John McCain, has switched his allegiance to President Obama. Lieberman has changed sides so may times, most people think he’s chairman of the Rotisserie Party.
Kim Jong Il was unanimously re-elected to North Korea's parliament, along with the 686 other legislators who were running unopposed. Republicans are now hoping Kim Jong Il lives long enough for them to figure out how he did it.
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is spending more than $173,000 on training to try to make its 4,000 clerks friendlier and more well-mannered at the nearly 650 stores it operates. Wouldn’t it be cheaper just to let the clerks have free samples?
Melissa Rycroft -- who was dumped last week on “The Bachelor” – is a last-minute replacement on “Dancing with the Stars.” She claims she’s not bitter but the show turned down her request for a female dance partner.
More than 100 people were arrested in Bogota, Colombia, after a riot which police say involved “embarrassing acts perpetrated by a group of malcontents who wanted to enter without tickets.” Coincidentally, that’s also how they described the band.
Billionaire Warren Buffett said in an interview that he feels the economy has “fallen off a cliff.” His followers immediately interpreted this as a secret message to invest in companies booking cruises to Acapulco.
The Pentagon confirms that five Chinese ships got dangerously close to a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters in the South China Sea. The Chinese government apologized and said the crew was just inspecting the USNS Impeccable to see if they wanted to buy it.
The company that makes Jim Beam is developing a black cherry version of the popular bourbon. The company says the flavor is not a signal to guys that it’s perfect drink to serve if your girlfriend is still a virgin.
A Swedish political party has proposed that women who give birth should be awarded $1,085 for each newborn child as part of an effort to improve the country's birthrate. In a related story, the Octo-mom has changed her name to Sonya.
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