• Yesterday, disaster was averted when a Nike corporate jet carrying top executives made a safe landing after a problem with the landing gear. As the plane touched down without incident, our nation’s sweatshop workers let out a collective sigh, knowing tomorrow’s hard-earned 14-cents-an-hour will still be there.

• People magazine has named Matthew McConaughey as the “sexiest man alive.” When I heard this, I had to check the calendar to make sure we weren’t welcoming April. As a red-blooded heterosexual, I don’t often find myself passing judgment on the attractiveness of men, but even I have to call B.S. on this choice. Last time I checked, “hick accent doubling as speech impediment” and “hair that smells like pot” were not high on ladies’ lists of desirable qualities in a mate.

• Anti-socials from coast to coast lined up for hours in hopes of snatching up Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 gaming system. (And they can have it. Me? I long for the glory days of the Atari 2600, when the directions were as simple as up, down, left, right and shoot.) I don’t have time to play video games and I sure as hell don’t have time to wait in line for the “pleasure” of buying one at midnight. What’s so special about shunning sleep and playing it all morning long the day it comes out, when it could be ordered off the Internet and you could avoid all that human contact? Would you brave the crowds and wait in line if it were a girl? Didn’t think so.

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