B-Grade Headlines

It was a headline writer's wet dream...12 million bees turned lose on the interstate near Sacra- mento, California. What a tasty story, editors swarm around opportunities like this, as it's a honey of an opportunity to take the sting out of using too many bad puns...You get the idea. CNN went for "Now, that stings!" and Colorado's Channel 9 News lead with "'Bee-lieve' it."

My favorite part of the story was that the local paper covering the event is The Sacramento Bee. Their not so sweet headline?

Truckload of bees topples, closes Hwy. 99 ramp at Florin Road

And that for the writer who led with "Things were really humming Sunday at Florin Road and Highway 99."

Better to go with the more sensational "Hundreds of thousands die in truck wreck" referring to the estimated dead bee count. After all, shouldn't we count bee deaths as well as human deaths? Or is that another story?

The High Cost of Cheap Sex

You are either the only man on earth not to whack off imaging sex with this woman worth that much money or you are the only woman not to wonder how much The Gov would have paid for an hour with you.

And if you are in the news business, you have already used this 20-something as a foil for finding out everything you ever wanted to know about high-priced whores.

And if you haven't been to her MySpace page, you may be the last person left on the web who has yet to hear her sing http://www.myspace.com/ninavenetta It's not as bad as you thought it would be, but I'm not sleeping with the Governor of New York just for a thousand bucks and a million hits on a MySpace page.