In the latest New Yorker magazine, CIA director Leon Panetta fired back against criticism that former VP Dick Cheney has been leveling against the Obama administration.  A spokesman for Mr. Cheney said that he felt bad about his remarks, and to show there were no hard feelings, has invited Mr. Panetta to go hunting with him.

I studied Latin in college, and people were always asking me, what are you going to do with Latin, it’s a dead language.  Actually, Latin is very useful, because it forms the basis for many English words.  For instance, the Latin word for Cubs, when combined with the Latin word for Chicago, forms the basis for the English word “loser”.

A student in England was shocked to find that his online banking statement showed him to be overdrawn by almost 100 billion pounds.   The student knew immediately something was wrong as he hadn't even made his monthly student loan payment yet.

A Chinese lunar probe has crashed into the moon in what the government has called a "controlled" collision, which, a Chinese spokesman was quick to assert, in no way helps to support the stereotype that Asians are bad drivers.

The courts allowed the bankruptcy proceedings for Chrysler to go forward this week.  The bankruptcy was approved after the judge told Chrysler to sit in a room for a few minutes while the judge went to talk to his manager.