Random notes from this week:

-There has been a Taco Bell dog sighting. He's co-starring with the talking cgi-lizard on a Geico commercial.

-In Montreal today it was, hold on to your hats, Rusty Staub bobblehead night. Note from the stats that Rusty played in Montreal for a whopping total of three and a half seasons, and he wasn't exactly a hall-of-famer in the rest of his career either. At this rate they'll be making a bobblehead of me pretty soon.

-Charlie Sheen is marrying Denise Richards. That in itself is pretty odd, but check out the first line of the article: "The marriage is the first for Richards". The sentence tone, more appropriate for a statement like "The All-Star game selection is the first for Staub", makes it abundantly clear that it has now become not only accepted but expected for people to marry multiple times.

-Britney Spears is in the news again, this time getting booed because she had to cut her concert short after the power went out. There are so many jokes one could put here, I'll just let you insert your favorite zinger instead:

a) Without additional juice to power them, Britney's breasts would have had to perform at their normal size, which would have been a commercial disaster.
b) The booing was actually for the songs preceding the blackout.
c) Rumor has it that a spiteful Justin Timberlake was spotted near the arena's electrical supply.
d) "Oops! Without pyrotechnic effects people would pay more attention to my music and notice that it is mostly mindless drivel with a few well-placed cleavage shots."

-Americans are stupid, but then again the Japanese have been telling us that for years. This statistic, however, is perplexing: "Only about one-third showed a good understanding of the scientific process, including ideas about probability and how to do an experiment.
Americans did better on some other questions. Ninety-four percent knew cigarette smoking causes lung cancer." Why then are there many, many American scientists while cigarette smoking is still allowed in restaurants?

-And finally, MSN.com, our number one purveyor of useless knowledge and blatant advertising masquerading as "front page news", has the following top story: Brad Pitt's Grizzly Look. If I walked out onto the street looking like that I'd be laughed back indoors, but he's chilling with Jennifer Aniston. Someone explain that to me.