Things I Learned This Week (A Baker's Dozen)

1. The term "Teabaggers" has more than one meaning. (Google John Waters' 1998 film, Pecker)
2.Somewhere between 44-56% of the electricity generated in the USA comes from coal, depending on your source.

3. Dip jewelry chains in

corn starch to easily

unravel knots.

4. Measles killed close to 200,000 people worldwide in 2008.

5. Top Climate Change Scientist hopes Copenhagen Climate Change Talks fail. Carbon offsets are not a viable solution, he says.

6. Palin demands that the Press address her as "Governor", and only allows ENGLISH-SPEAKING PRESS & QUESTIONS!

7. Frank Sinatra said his father, "...was always there to piss on my dreams."

8. 9 million Americans don't have Bank Accounts (hmm…does that include the homeless?)…just wonderin'…

9. Use toothpaste on diamond jewelry

and cds, to clean and shine them.

10. Olympic Skater, Katarina Witt turned 44 this past week.

11. When Mike Huckabee was a kid, he and his sister would open all their presents, play with them, and re-wrap them. Until one year they re-wrapped a football that had gotten muddy. Oopy.

12. Meredith Baxter, Mrs. Keaton on Family Ties, realized later in life that she was a lesbian.

13. Tiger Woods had

copious affairs (see the slideshow!) - none were illegal, and Nike doesn't give a crap about 'em. Now, if suddenly Tiger can no longer "keep his eye on the ball" (heh, heh), and stops delivering those magnificent holes-in-one…THEN Nike might suddenly care about those affairs….