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Bottles of honey causes Calif. airport shutdown
When TSA agents opened one of the bottles and tested the contents, the resulting fumes nauseated them, Youngblood said. Both were treated and released at a local hospital. (brietbart)

New airport scanners break child porn laws
Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines are so graphic they amount to “virtual strip-searching” and have called for safeguards to protect the privacy of passengers involved. (guardian)

Continental gate agent saves flight from Joan Rivers
Rivers, 76, was deemed a danger to national security and booted from a Newark-bound flight in Costa Rica on Sunday by a jittery Continental Airlines gate agent who found the two names on her passport fishy. (nydailynews)

Don’t Be Afraid: Passengers Break into “Hey Jude” During Newark Scare
A traveling guitarist is becoming viral sensation after leading a group of passengers in a rousing round of the Beatles’ classic “Hey Jude” while stuck at Newark airport over the weekend. (nbcnewyork)

Study finds medication of little help to patients with mild, moderate depression
Antidepressant medications probably provide little or no benefit to people with mild or moderate depression, a new study has found. Rather, the mere act of seeing a doctor, discussing symptoms and learning about depression probably triggers the improvements many patients experience while on medication. (latimes)

Obama adds his style to Oval Office decor
The decorative china plates are long gone. Historic metal gadgets and Native American pottery now stand in their stead. Resting on a bookshelf is a framed program from the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech. (msnbc)

Sony Cites Piracy as Reason For Moon’s Non-Oscar Campaign
Movieline has learned why the studio put the kibosh to distributing DVD screeners to the Academy — or its official reasoning, anyway. (movieline)

Gallagher
Leo Gallagher is an American comedian of some renown. Hugely popular in the 80s, Gallagher gained fame through stand-up routines in which he used many props. Here is Gallagher delighting the crowd by jumping on a large couch. Of course, Gallagher’s most popular act, dubbed the Sledge-o-Matic, involved smashing watermelons and other fruit with a huge wooden mallet. Twenty years later, Gallagher is still wowing his fans by destroying foodstuffs. Black Gallagher messed up his watermelons using a different method. Maybe you went to go see Gallagher a few years ago, only to have mistakenly seen Gallagher’s brother, Gallagher Too? Gallagher and his brother are now estranged. These days, Gallagher seems like a pretty angry guy. (metafilter)

Forty, Fit, & Fastfood
30 Days to better fitness with McDonald’s. (excelfit)

Kevin Smith Instigates First Feud of 2010 with Neil Patrick Harris
Things started innocently enough as several of Smith’s Twitter followers asked him to lend support to Neil Patrick Harris, who was on a crusade to win AfterElton.com’s Man of the Decade contest. However, Smith revealed that he is far from an NPH fan. (movieline)