StupidiNews, Weekend Edition!

• Record flooding along the Souris River in Minot, North Dakota has deluged thousands of homes in the city as National Guard troops try to keep the main bridge over the swollen river open.
• Texas lawmakers hope to have the Lone Star State become the tenth in the nation to feature Confederate flag license plates.
• Speculation continues to swirl around the mystery illness that has kept Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez out of the spotlight, bringing up succession questions.
• Japanese retirees from the engineering and science community are pitching in to help with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
• Counterfeit Chinese microchips have the Defense Department rethinking how and where it gets its electronics, and how to secure them from hackers and back doors.