Odds that...

When President Bush visits Southern California Thursday to see the damage caused by the wildfires, he brings a long stick and a bag of marshmallows: 12-5

As the 'extraordinary rendition' trial resumes in Milan, the 26 CIA spies accused of kidnapping Abu Omar all secretly hope Jake Gyllenhaal will play them in the movie version: 9-4

At the annual Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair, things get awkward this week when Christopher Hitchens shows up ready to party, in sunglasses and a motorcycle jacket: 3-2

While the Boston Red Sox play their first game of the World Series tonight, they're surprised their opponents, the Colorado Rockies, aren't playing in hiking boots: 7-6

After they all appear on "The View" this morning, James Lipton invites George Carlin and Feist to lunch so he can regale them with tales of his pimphood—and they decline: 1-1