the buzz log

Here's your tall, cold buzz.

1. Elisabeth Hasselbeck (+8,785%). The 31-year-old member of "The View" is pregnant again. The die-hard Republican, who is married to former football player Tim Hasselbeck, made the announcement on the ABC show. She said the third pregnancy was a surprise.
2. Left-handed presidents (+334%). Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and now Barack Obama are all lefties. In fact, eight presidents claimed south-paw status. Coincidence? Or some kind of evolutionary advantage?
3. 2009 Super Bowl kickoff time (+250%). Turn on the tube — or flee the house — at 6:20 p.m. Eastern Time (3:20 p.m. Pacific Time) this Sunday on NBC.
4. New York gangs (+200%). Concern is growing that with the worsening economy, New York will sink back to the dark days of the 1970s, when crime levels skyrocketed and the city services all but disappeared.
5. Peanut recall (+160%). The news about the Georgia peanut processing plant keeps getting worse. The FDA reports that despite positive tests showing Salmonella contamination, the plant continued to produce peanut products, dating back to January, 2007. The recall is one of the nation's largest. You can search the ever-expanding list of recalled peanut products here.