Let's give 'em something to talk about...

We're nearing week's end, so here's a round-up of some of the bigger stories out there...

The president went on "The View" yesterday. Among the topics he touched on - Snooki and LiLo, race and social media. Ba-ba Wa-wa, unfortunately, did not ask him if he was a tree what kind he would be...

When Nancy Pelosi promised to "drain the swamp" in D.C., who knew emptying it would begin on her side of the aisle? (I wonder what else is under the rocks...?)

Maybe her drainage pipe is blocked...

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio/Gray Davis? Poll shows Californians prefer Davis over The Governator. Looks like Ah-nold shouldn't have quit his day job...

Now that Sen. Harry Reid's efforts have failed, is the global warming movement dead? Moreover, is Harry Reid's career dead?

News item: One in five Californians say they need mental health care...so that's how Nancy Pelosi keeps being re-elected...

Serf warning: "Tax tsunami on the horizon" -(c.q.)...

News item - "Judge Blocks Parts of Arizona Immigration Law"; no word from Feds on actual enforcement of existing laws...

Americans between the ages 18-42, H.R.5741-Universal National Service Act- calls for 2 years mandatory national service. The bill, by the way, is authored by Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), who will be lucky if he gets away with just two years...

Charlie Rangel - he has a right to be worried...

Hey, who wouldn't like to take four vacations in a month? (Times are tough all over!) I'm just glad the prez and his family feel all our pain...

He was against paying taxes -until he was for paying taxes? John Kerry has "Nothing more to say" about yacht tax dodge. (Thank goodness Mrs. Heinz-Kerry was able to cough-up a nice $500,000 check to the Commonwealth of Taxachusetts to buy-away the embarrassment.)

He should've stuck with the windsurfer...

Add Kerry: "If you guys think that John Kerry doesn't have enough sense of either propriety or common sense, that I'm going to be sailing my boat around Massachusetts where I'm highly recognizable but it's going to somehow stay in Rhode Island and I'm going to avoid a tax . . . I'd be crazy to think that I'm going to be doing that, and that was never our long-term intention here." (As quoted in The Boston Globe - h/t: James Taranto @ Best of the Web Today/WSJ.)

RADIO ALERT! - Yours truly will be hosting the John Batchelor Show tomorrow (Saturday) from 6 p.m. - 10 p.m., Pacific Time. I'll be joined by Gordon Chang of Forbes.com, as well as more than a dozen other guests as we take on the news and events shaping our world. Check local listings or John's website for details...

The John Batchelor Show - tomorrow night!