Newsbreaks for Tuesday

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A former administrator for the Smithsonian says that the museum altered an exhibit on global warming so as not to antagonize the Bush Administration. A spokeswoman for the White House called the story ridiculous., “This President would never go in a museum.”

The exhibit was titled, “The Arctic: A Friend Acting Strangely.” I love this--first because it suggests it’s the Arctic’s is melting on purpose, and second, that it had better stop, or we’ll kick its ass.

Procter and Gamble announced today that it was releasing all of its laundry detergents in a new, double-strength formulation. A P&G spokesman said, “This will make the product easier to handle, take up less space in landfills, and give you an ‘extra-clean tingle’ right before you dissolve.”

And finally, in a new memoir, boxer George Foreman claims that he was drugged before his 1974 fight against Muhammad Ali. George,it was 1974—everybody was drugged.