While You Were at the Bar 6/23

News you can use:

It was announced Sunday that Tom Brokaw will host NBC's "Meet the Press" through the November election. Brokaw stepped down from hosting "Nightly News" in 2004 as the nation's most popular news anchor and was a close friend of Tim Russert's. I am a Brokaw fan, and I think I would probably believe anything he tells me.

Saturday's thunderstorms in California are responsible for starting hundreds of wildfires. One fire, sparked by lightening, had spread over six square miles and was 35 percent contained as of Sunday evening. Don't you just wish you could take all that extra rain from Iowa and funnel it over to Cali? Sheesh.

In a tragic accident Saturday, a passenger ferry in the Philippines capsized when it was caught in a typhoon. Over 800 people were on board, including small children. Twenty-eight survivors have been found after floating at sea for over 24 hours and reported total pandemonium when the boat began to turn on its side. The typhoon, which has killed 155 people in central and southern Philippines is now headed towards Taiwan. (Karen, is this near your mom's people?)

News you can lose:


Naomi Campbell was found guilty of assault Friday and sentenced to 200 hours of community work. Apparently Ms. Campbell got a little violent on a British Airways flight to L.A. and accused one of the BA employees of making a racial slur. Doesn't she know that the Brits are the most well mannered people around?


Word of the Day:

Brobdingnagian \brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn\, adjective: of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous.

Holy smokes! Brobdingnagian is such a Brobdingnagian word!