It's a boy!

Now normally I don't cover entertainment/human-interest stories, but this is a special occassion. Yup, Britney Spears has given birth to a bouncing fat baby boy. It's apparently named after a Northern England football club, but more on that later.

The Britney Spears Live! DVD is due out October 2nd

Now, you may say its unlike me to welcome into the world a baby doomed to a life of misery (yes, misery) - but this is an opportunity for Britney Spears to prove she can do something vaguely useful with her life (let's face it, she hasn't even come close so far). Namely, successfully raise a child in Texas. Pitfalls of such an environment include (but are not limited to) mass hype over creationism Intelligent Design and the hysterical enforcement of the 2nd ammendment.

Celebrities turned up to the birth-giving ceremony at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California to wish Spears a happy birth after 29 well earned hours of labour. Michael Jackson emerged stating only that "[he likes] them fat". Other well-wishers included George Bush who took time out of his busy schedule to visit the star whose house borders with his ranch. When reporters questioned him on the scale of devastation caused on the Gulf Coast and whether that's where his attention would be better placed, he simply replied "of course there's devstation, we caused it. Where the hell do you think we've been bombing the last two years?"