The first-ever use of nitrogen gas for an execution just took place in Alabama, and it might catch on. Sodium thiopental and other drugs are hard to come by-- seems Pfizer does want the image problem of making a drug used in a procedure half the country abhors. But Nitrogen, the same gas that makes your beer soft puts you right out just as well. People are protesting the putting down of Kenneth Eugene Smith, the guy who hired a murder in 1988. But is it just phony outrage? 

Out west Eminem didn't restrain his feelings about the 49ers Faithful at the NFC Championship game, Alyssa Milano needs your help to fund her son's baseball team, "The science of wet fingers," and a fake Taylor Swift war on X/Twitter wraps up this round of comedy with former cops Jay Darrell and Eric Tansey and Comedian Margaret Owens. 

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