Jewcy Zeitgeist: RIP Yugo, Wal-Mart Does Good and 50 Beefs With Taco Bell

NEWS!!!!!

• John McCain returned to work in Washington for the first time since losing the presidential election.
• Paul McCartney and Guns n' Roses will both make their upcoming albums available on MySpace before they will be released for sale.
• Wal-Mart has struck a deal with Duke Energy to power hundreds of its stores using wind energy.
• The New York Times has taken a strong editorial position, recommending that you wear a sparkly dress at your office Christmas party this year.
• Al-Qaeda apparently missed the memo about Barack Obama secretly being a Muslim hellbent on destroying America, deeming him a "house negro," with a "heart full of hate."
• Irving Brecher, a pioneer in American comedy who wrote for Milton Berle, the Marx Bros. and George Burns, among others, died yesterday in Los Angeles.
• In a devastating blow to the internation automobile insdustry, Yugos have gone out of production in Serbia.
• Tom Daschle will likely serve as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in the Obama administration.
• Mike Mussina, a pitcher for the New York Yankees of baseball, is expected to retire.
• Tensions are running high between 50 Cent and Taco Bell. Stay tuned for more as this story develops.
• From CNN.com: "Prostitute to Spitzer's wife: 'I'm sorry'"
• Yemen may be running out of oil.
• The Marion Barry of Vietnam has been popped for buying illegal rhino horns in South Africa.
• "There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands."
  - Rep. Gary L. Ackerman (D-N.Y.), on the chief executives of GM, Chrysler and Ford attending hearings in Washington yesterday to discuss a possible bailout package for the auto industry.