He could always eat a Secret Service guard: Continuing his grand tour of Alaska on Tuesday, President Barack Obama got a crash course in wilderness survival from TV star Bear Grylls.
The Buzz suspects that Obama found eating bugs to be preferable to dealing with House Republicans or Vladimir Putin.
Thin full disclosure: Airlines should disclose seats widths before passengers buy tickets, a federal advisory panel said Tuesday.
The Buzz suggests airlines make like carnivals and display life-size cardboard cutouts of supermodel Kate Moss, under which is printed “You Have to be This Skinny to Buy a Ticket.”
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1969, in what some regard as the birth of the Internet, two computers at UCLA passed data through a 15-foot cable.
But it wasn’t really the Internet, since the transmitted data was neither a cute kitten video, nor a bogus meme like “Denali means Black Power in Kenyan*,” nor an Instagram of what somebody had for brunch.
* Actual bogus Internet meme circulating this week.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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