Weekly Headlines, June 18
June 20th, 2008
Broadway’s 62nd annual Tony Awards were held on Sunday. The biggest winners were “South Pacific” and “August Osage County,” while the biggest losers, for the 62nd straight year, were straight women trying to find dates.
Five years after being attacked on stage, Siegfried and Roy welcomed five new tigers to their menagerie in Las Vegas, the most expensive of which was an African golfer that won that U.S. Open this weekend.
Democratic lawmakers gave 165 billion dollars to the Bush administration this week for the next year of the war in Iraq. With that money, we could just give every Iraqi citizen about 6,000 dollars. Chew on that.
A group of four women in Florida have been dressing up as nurses, and then mugging senior citizens outside of a Wal-Mart. That’s the kind of naughty nurse this guy likes.
This week heralded the hundredth anniversary of the invention of the teabag. To celebrate, the president of Lipton will have a hundred employees dip their balls in his mouth.