Talk is Cheap: Rampant speculation continues over who Obama will (or will not) choose as his VP running mate.  It’s Biden! Bayh is out! Mehh.  The papers are saying the announcement will come anywhere from 10 minutes ago to Thursday.  Many in the media seem to agree that Obama-rama laid a turd in his chapel date with McCain.  It’s Bush v. Kerry all over again!  The Simpleton v. The Meanderer.  Lowest common denomiator wins.  I’m just waiting on that text from Obama telling me who it is (OMG, J-Bid 4 VP!).  Until then, I’ll be snoozing in my cone of silence.

The Bat Has Legs: The Dark Knight was finally toppled by Ben Stiller’s Hollywood send-up Tropic Thunder after surpassing Star Wars as the second highest-grossing film of all time, all while spending 5 weeks on top of the weekend box office charts.  The film’s tally stands at roughly $471 million, meaning it still has $130 million to go to catch that boat movie.  And of course, all of these feats are measured in crappy, 2008 dollars, which we all know couldn’t buy you a small fries at Mickey D’s (in Zaire).  Also, no line in Knight can hold a candle to Jack’s “This town needs an enema!”  Truer words have never been spoken, Jack.

Dem Particulates Are FINE: The buzz term when one is talking air pollution and its health impact these days is “fine particulates.”  The LA Times reported last year on the continued construction of schools near freeways, where recess and P.E. classes have been drastically scaled back to limit students’ exposure to the cancer-causing particles.  But a recent story in the UK Telegraph claims that the pollution from ships (you know, those things on the ocean) could be responsible for up to 60,000 deaths a year.  Playing dodgeball next to a freeway is one thing, but if ocean liners are jacking up the air in coastal cities, that’s a whole other beast that has yet to fall under Al Gore’s regulatory crusade.

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