- Bill Cosby received the 12th annual Mark Twain Prize For Humor last night. It took twelve years of the award to finally get to Bill Cosby? Did the first eleven awards literally go to Mark Twain?
- Barack Obama is signing off on $3.4 billion in stimulus money for a series of “smart grid” utility projects designed to cut energy. So he finally cracked after seeing those IBM commercials three times per NFL commercial break too, huh?
- The Saudi king has pardoned a female journalist after she was sentenced to 60 lashes for producing a talk show episode in which a guest talked about his sexual exploits on air. Her punishment has been reduced to just two days in the stocks and the consumption of one potion involving eye of newt.
- Scarlett Johansson will make her Broadway debut in the revival of Arthur Miller’s play A View From The Bridge. She assured reporters this was an “actress trying her hand at theater” Broadway run, not an “I can’t get any actual work so only Broadway would take me” run.
- Disney is offering a refund for parents who bought DVDs of the children’s program Baby Einstein after advocacy groups claimed that television actually hurt infant development. Oh yeah? Then how do you explain the movie Baby Geniuses?? They probably watched tv.
