A Belgian Beer Company Is Readying A Hostile Takeover:

On Wednesday, InBev, makers of Stella Artois and Becks, announced a $46 billion, $65-a-share bid for Anheuser-Busch, America's largest and perhaps most iconic brewery. The news has distressed Budweiser devotees who take pride in drinking the American-made beer, and some are even fighting back.

"Budweiser is as American as baseball," said Ed Martin, a lawyer from Anheuser-Busch's hometown of St. Louis. He so wants his Budweiser label to remain "red, white and blue" and out of the hands of the soccer-loving Belgians that he launched a Web site devoted to the cause, Saveab.com.

A petition on the site has garnered 11,449 signatures since rumors of a potential sale swirled a week ago. But that's a drop in the barrel compared to the 33,289 signatures linked from the similar Web site, Savebudweiser.com.

If you're interested, you can sign the petition to save Budweiser here.

David Blaine Held His Breath For More Than 17 Minutes:

CHICAGO (AP) — David Blaine took on a Zen-like appearance in the water tank as the minutes ticked by during his attempt to set a new breath-holding record. Oprah Winfrey, however, was anything but calm.

She fidgeted in her chair, pursed her lips, placed her head in her hands, and kept seeking reassurance from the doctor at her side about the 35-year-old magician's persistently high heart rate.

"I'll be glad when it's over. I don't like suspense," she told the audience during a commercial break.

Soon enough, Winfrey — and Blaine — could breathe a lot easier.

Submerged in a water-filled sphere on the stage of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" during a live broadcast, Blaine held his breath for 17 minutes and 4 seconds. That bested the previous record of 16 minutes and 32 seconds, set Feb. 10 by Switzerland's Peter Colat, according to Guinness World Records.

Quite the feat. And for his next trick? 12 days awake...

Off Topic Insanity - Golden Eagle Attacks, Kills Goat:



Insane. Thanks to the evil, murderous golden eagle for the assist during what is clearly a slow news week. My apologies to the goat...

45 Years After Her Death, Marilyn Is A Star All Over Again:

An illicit copy of the steamy, still-FBI-classified reel - 15 minutes of 16mm film footage in which the original blond bombshell performs oral sex on an unidentified man - was just sold to a New York businessman for $1.5 million, said Keya Morgan, the well-known memorabilia collector who discovered the film and brokered its purchase.

The footage appears to have been shot in the 1950s. When it came to light in the mid-'60s, then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had his agents spend two weeks futilely trying to prove that Monroe's sex partner was either John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy, according to declassified agency documents and interviews, Morgan said.

The silent black-and-white flick shows Monroe on her knees in front of a man whose face is just out of the shot.

He never moves into the shot, indicating that he knew the camera was there, but Monroe never looks at the lens, said Morgan, who saw the footage.

OK, so the photo above is a bit racy but I think it gets the message across. It's Monday and the last thing I expected to find on the wires was news of a Marilyn Monroe sex tape purchase. Monroe has been dead for 45 years and there have been fakes before but this appears to be legit. You can imagine this will eventually leak on to the Internet and spread faster than One Night in Paris.

Irate Professor Smashes Disruptive Students Laptop In Class:



Not sure when this was filmed but if that was my laptop I would be pretty upset. He went all 'Office Space' on that thing!