Tues. Show Prep - Freedom of speech edition at ProductionNinja.com

BBC: Have you noticed that there haven’t been any protestors at the Olympics? Apparently that’s because most of the people who applied to protest had a sudden… ehem… change of heart. China has received a total of 77 applications to stage protests during the Olympic Games period - but not one has been approved. Beijing’s public security bureau said 74 applications were “withdrawn”, two were “suspended” and one was “vetoed”. If they built a prison in Denver for the DNC, I wonder what preparations they made in Beijing.
Boston Globe: Speaking of people who wear out their welcome, Pakistani “President” Pervez Musharraf has resigned from office, rather than face impeachment. He may have been a friend of President Bush and helped out in the war on terror, but I could never get past the fact that he rose to power in a military coup. The more of those we can get rid of, the better.
WXPI: Leda Smith is my new hero. Leda woke up in the middle of the night to find a 17 year old burglarizing her house, and rather than the cowering in fear she grabbed her gun, pointed it at the snot-nosed punk and forced him to dial 911… on himself. Bravo Leda. Bravo.
AP: Let’s take a look at the first sentence in this story, and see if you can figure out what’s wrong with it: “A gifted 15-year-old student from India had to be rushed to the hospital after drinking liquid nitrogen during a science class at Princeton University.” No person who decides that it’s a good idea to drink some liquid nitrogen should ever be referred to as “gifted.”
CNN: Try to look surprised, but it turns out that the North Georgia Bigfoot just might have been a hoax. Either it was a hoax, or Bigfoot was created when a hillbilly and a opossum met, fell in love and decided to have some very hairy kids.