whadder you laughing at?

Not sure why high fives were so funny two weeks ago, but haven't been since.

A friend has suggested that chronic giggling and high fiving are inborn male traits that are triggered by Cheerios and soy formula in a lad's formative years. These stimuli are replaced by beer and hot wings later in life.

(can't view the flick? you should get Quicktime.)

and a tux for Barney

Everything that I've read has said that the total costs of the champagne, parades--and probably pedicures for the commander in chief--surrounding the 2005 presidential inauguration are expected to exceed $40 million. These expenses are to be paid through private donations.

The District of Columbia will be forced to spend $11.9 million from it's own homeland security budget. Funny that Michael Dell, the Enron refugees, nor any of the others seemed interested picking up the tab for the costs of the event's stepped-up security.

mysteriouser and mysteriouser

On Tuesday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart showed a clip from "The View" in which the girls (did there used to be more of them?) were talking about what a terrible tragedy the tsunami in the Indian Ocean was and how distraught they were about all the lost lives. Then Star Jones told of how about how God "blesses us" because she had been down "there" one month prior to the tsunami. Then one of the other women gasped "oh that's right you were on your Honeymoon in the Maldives!" To which Star reiterated that she had been down there "just one month prior" and that "God blesses us." Then they all lapsed into a group gush about this divinely engineered close call that Starr had experienced. What a miracle!

You know, Chicago had a big flood downtown about six months before I moved there, so I kind of know where Star's coming from.

Stewart: "160,000 dead is not a blessing!"