Laugh Lines
* This month marks 50 years since the House Un-American Activities Committee Hearings into communist infiltration in Hollywood. “What they never figured out in Washington is that Hollywood people can take a meeting with Satan, kiss him on the cheek, tell him they love what he’s doing, tell him they want to work with him--and never give him a second thought.” (Cutler Daily Scoop)
* The Cassini spacecraft will travel 2.2 billion miles to Saturn. “To put that distance in perspective, think of Saturn as downtown Los Angeles. You’re in Riverside. It’s 7 a.m. on a Monday morning and it’s raining.” (Kenny Noble Cortes)
* The U.S. and Japan reached an agreement that averts a trade war that would have stopped Japanese ships from entering U.S. ports, says the Daily Scoop. “It was touch and go there on Friday. For a while it looked like hundreds of thousands of Tamagotchis were gonna die at sea.”
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