As you prepare to head out on the town tonight, or over to a party, you need to have some fun topics to talk about. Good for you, you’ve come to the right place. In this weekly post we look back at popular news stories and provide you all you need to be up-to-date when it’s your turn to talk about something interesting. Visit us every Friday for these conversation stories and every day for more great stuff to make your single and/or dating life better understood.

So, let’s get right to it:

- Senator caught with porn on laptop. My concern isn’t whether the senator clicked away from the partially clad women quick enough, or that he was caught watching porn during an abortion debate, it is that he has friends (the senator wouldn’t click a link in an email he didn’t recognize, would he?) that feel it entirely appropriate to send him porn links, knowing he’s a senator and all that… egad!

- Betty White to appear this weekend on ‘Saturday Night Live’. The 88 year old actress also says very little nudity in her appearance on the show. Egad again…

- Corey Haim died of pneumonia. I knew Corey back in the 80′s, when I clerked at a billiard parlor and he was just finishing filming of “The Lost Boys“. I remember he came back to Toronto to invite some friends to a private screening of the film. He was a precocious kid, he liked to have friends. I hate to think that was the reason he died, but he like of being liked was only a contributing factor. May he rest well.

- World’s largest beaver dam visible from space. Slow news week? Nope, but digging into what was first reported in 2007 is a step forward, I think. Anyways, this beaver dam, more than 8 football fields long, can be viewed using Google and NASA technology (appropriate links and imagery in the news article). I wonder if this real-world-wonder will be awarded some type of award, not that the beavers would care, I guess.

- The last one….. DMV employees busted for selling fake IDs and bad vehicle titles. Another story of the civil servant run amok? Or just that these illegal ways to boost their pay was to easy to pull off? Another story of government employees policing themselves and getting their hand caught in the glovebox. LOL

Have a great weekend!