A man distracted by a low-flying pelican and dropped cell phone drove his sports car into a marsh near Galveston.  Today the man was hired as a pilot by Northwest Airlines.

Manny Pacquiao weighed in at 144 pounds, his heaviest ever, while Miguel Cotto came in at the contract limit of 145 pounds for their scheduled 12-round fight Saturday night.   Also much anticipated is the preliminary bout on Saturday night between Mike Tyson and a TMZ paparazzo.

NASA today announced the next moon trip in early 2010 will be made by astronauts Perrier, Dasani, and Evian.

Sadly, the world's largest gingerbread man is homeless as the bank foreclosed on his world's largest gingerbread house.

This same university conducted a similar project on the Clinton presidency.   Of course, Clinton's oral history focused on Monica Lewinsky.

Sarah Palin told Oprah that Levi Johnston is welcome to visit on Thanksgiving.  Coincidentally, Thanksgving is about a week after the Playgirl magazine hits the stands in which Levi shows the world his drumstick. 

Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering a plan for higher payroll taxes on upper-income earners to help finance health care legislation.   So apparently, health care willl be paid for by the New York Yankees. 

I think we can safely rule out Dobbs joining Telemundo.

Obama shouldn't accept any Afghan war option that doesn't include sending Mike Tyson.

The White House had no comment.