Mad Libs News

I wake up pretty early. Not real early (I think you have to wake up with a 4 in front of all the numbers on the clock to qualify for that) but pretty early; I get to watch the news channels before the talking heads shows (um, MJ) all start, which means I get MSNBC's First Look.

YES.

At 0530 they haven't quite figured out what is or isn't news yet, so they pretty much just check out whatever the top-rated Youtube clips or the biggest stories on Digg are. For instance, this morning it was reported that an Australian Man, While Surfing, Saved a Baby Kangaroo, From Shark-Infested Waters.

Later they reported that a Chinese guy, while practicing kung fu, saved a dragon from an oncoming tank. And after the break, a guy from Kentucky, while playing his banjo, saved a jackrabbit from a moonshine explosion.

In other, non media-propagated ethnic stereotype news, those Libert Financial commercials about responsibility are ambiguous and confusing, and pretty much the most depressing things on tv, Jim and Pam proved on the season finale why the US version of the Office is somehow the most uplifting thing on television, while the British version (Christmas episode notwithstanding, hope you're still going strong Tim and Dawn!) just makes you feel uncomfortable being around British people.