We don’t have a lot of time with each other in this life, everybody. Let’s keep it brief today.

Powerball. You’re not going to win, but it will be thrilling for a minute (if you win, e-mail me!).

Sometimes trains collide head-on. It happened in Connecticut yesterday. It makes no sense.

North Korea’s firing missiles again. But it’s not a big deal.

MOON EXPLOSION.

France is cool with gay marriage. Oregon still is not.

Uh oh. Crazy ants trump fire ants every time.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has yet to address allegations he smoked crack on camera.

The Weather Widget tells is like it is. No two ways about it.

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Also, you’d think astronauts would be dismissive of Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” detailing, as it does, astronaut death. Not the case.

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2 replies on “Good Morning, News!”

  1. “…you’d think astronauts would be dismissive of Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” detailing, as it does, astronaut death. Not the case.”

    Actually, they changed the words so as not to include the death part at all. The “tell my wife i love her very much” and “your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong” lines were replaced by some drama-less re-entry talk. They gave a happy ending to a song about a not-so-happy ending, skipping over the whole point of the damn thing.

    Geez, don’t let these guys get a hold of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ — they would make the apes vegetarians and would have HAL be more understanding and not so murderous.

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