Gee, thanks Oprah

Oprah Winfrey’s using her bully pulpit to discourage driving while making phone calls or sending texts.

At the conclusion of her show, Winfrey suddenly leaped to her feet and screamed: “Look under your seats! Everybody gets a stupid-looking Bluetooth earpiece! Everybody gets a stupid-looking Bluetooth earpiece!”

Oooga-booga: The flora on Disneyland’s venerable Jungle Cruise has been transformed over the years from a former orange grove into something like a real jungle.

However, Disney imagineers wisely scuttled a proposal to make the attraction even more realistic by replacing the animatronic hippos with real ones, infecting random guests with malaria, and allowing the skippers to guzzle gin by the quart.

Guided tour: For your next road trip across Stevens Pass, check out a new tour guide that comes with a CD that contains music and interviews with people along U.S. 2 between Everett and Wenatchee (Page F1).

That’s certainly an improvement over the old days, when, as The Buzz remembers it, the only entertainment on that highway was the motel out near Startup that advertised porno movies on closed-circuit TV.