Wacky News Stories

Fantasy football draft complete ... as always, I currently like my team.

1. On a story that canned beer is the future of good beer:
"The fine people at Meister Brau and Piels are finally happy in their pants!"
http://gizmodo.com/5622938/canned-beer-is-the-future-of-good-beer?skyline=true&s=i

2. On Fidel Castro saying that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is a bought-and-paid-for CIA agent who always popped up when former President George W. Bush needed to scare the world, arguing that documents recently posted on the Internet prove it:
"Emo Phillips thinks this guy is nuts."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/27/ap/latinamerica/main6811198.shtml?tag=reddit

3. On Paris Hilton being arrested on the Las Vegas Strip late Friday after police saw a cloud of what they suspected was marijuana smoke wafting from the windows of a black Cadillac Escalade driven by her boyfriend, then found a small amount of cocaine in her possession:
"Maybe she can turn this into a positive like Richard Pryor - 'Paris Hilton - Up in Smoke!'"
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/08/28/paris-hilton-arrested-drug-possession/

4. On a Catholic school apologizing to parents offended by a boy pretending to be Adolf Hitler won first place in his class at a school costume contest:
"They decided to re-award the prize to the second place winner - the kid in the Osama Bin Laden costume."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38888008?gt1=43001

5. On two soccer moms brawling at an awards ceremony:
"They agreed to settle it in a min-van race-off..."
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/soccer-moms-brawl-at-awards-ceremony/story-e6frfku0-1225911146930