From the Have Another Cigarette-oric Department, president George W. Bush took a sideswipe at Barack Obama yesterday for the presumed "appeasement" a President Obama would make to demands from Nigerian president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua for eight gold medals for his country at the 2008 Olympic Games {editor: please insert subliminal message "Free Tibet"}.

Speaking (writing?) of the Olympic Games (editor: please insert subliminal message "Free Tibet from Chinese Oppression"), the favorites in men's basketball is no longer Team USA, but rather Team China. After all, as anyone watching the NBA playoffs now knows, the home team always wins.

Cue Robin Leach voice: In the world of glitz and glamour, Brad Pitt announced his gay marriage in California to twins while bombshell wife Angelina Jolie promoted her animated flick Afro Ninja at the Wango Tango music festival in Cannes. No word from Jolie yet as to whether she'd be demonstrating against the 2008 Olympic Games {editor: please insert subliminal message "Free Tibet from Chinesse Oppression because we love the Dalai Lama because he's seems like such a nice guy, always smiling and all"}, though one is expected as an estimated 17 of her adopted children are of Tibetan descent.

Back on the campaign trail, former rival for the presidency "Honest John" Edwards formally endorsed Obama, who may now officially be referred to as The Dude Who's Gonna Lose to John McCain.

Finally, thousands of Chinese and Chinese Dutch rallied in Amsterdam in protest of another silly declaration from the US government, continued closure of coffee shops, and something else ... ah yes, support of the Beijing Olympics. {Editor: insert subliminal message. "Free Tibet. Do your part today. Boycott naughty corporate sponsors. Also, vote for The Dude Who's Gonna Lose to John McCain, I mean, Barack Obama. You can do this online, can't you, editor?}

And somewhere out there in the lonely Antarctic, a seal humped a penguin...