Crabby queen writer Gore Vidal, who is certainly older than you, appeared on the English telly after Obama’s clinch last night to discuss American politics with the Britons. Appropriately, he went insane for several minutes after asking and receiving permission to “talk the facts of life” with the BBC anchor. Whenever he is asked a mild follow-up question, Vidal barks that he has never heard of the terrible, lowly anchor who is harassing him. This clip is staggering. [YouTube]

Here’s your “Friday Fun Link,” courtesy of BBC News and the Journal of Ethology. It is a King Penguin being sexually assaulted by an Antarctic Fur Seal. South African scientists photographed the freakish 45-minute sex crime, which only ended when the hundred-kilogram rapist seal couldn’t figure out how to actually copulate with the 15-kilogram ice bird, who was reportedly unharmed but deeply ashamed. [BBC News]

The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone (Labour Party, which is like “Democrats”), is in a tight re-election battle with Tory candidate Boris Johnson, and now there are new revelations that could damage his career: he has five children with three different women! The lazy British press only just figured this out, too. How will Ken Livingstone ever survive the fact that he has children? MORE »

The State Department announced Monday that it had filled its vacancies at the Iraq Embassy, so, ugh, *fine*, there’ll be no mandatory service — for now. This comes in the wake of massive bitching from members of our prestigious diplomatic corps, who were worried they’d be forced to serve somewhere that could actually use them. MORE »

President responds to question from BBC Political Editor with hilarious jokes about his bald head and how much he hates him. [E&P]

* The instant Congress recognizes those Indian tribes in Virginia, you’ll get sweet, sweet “casino gambling in the Commonwealth.” [Congress Blog]
* But never hit the roulette table with Joe Trippi, that guy just can’t pick a winner. [Political Wire, On Call]
* The Politico: Reading at a 4th grade level should be no barrier to in-depth political news. [Romenesko]
* Communist John Murtha thinks everyone should have an equal opportunity to get ’sploded in Baghdad. [HuffPo]
* Staffers incessant wearing of Che Guevara themed novelty shirts proves the BBC is evil. [YouTube]
* Those presidential candidates are just so quirky. [McSweeney's]

Humanity has many religions, languages, and forms of funny clothing, but there is one thing all Earthlings share: a deep loathing for the United States, Iran and Israel. MORE »

The Internets are buzzing with the bizarre story of BBC News reporting the 9/11 collapse of WTC7 before the building actually collapsed — all over a live shot of Ground Zero, with the 47-story highrise clearly in view and clearly standing.

What it “proves” is anyone’s guess, but it sure makes for hilarious viewing. But BBC reporters and anchors who maybe didn’t know the Manhattan skyline so well could possibly be forgiven for reporting an erroneous story and not knowing that great big highrise was World Trade Center 7 (otherwise known as the Salomon Brothers building). So why doesn’t the BBC simply say it got a story wrong and didn’t know any better? Stranger still, why did New York-based CNN anchor Aaron Brown do the same exact thing on September 11, 2001? We’ve got all the creepy video and much more to make your head asplode, after the jump.

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While American politicians are usually Satanists or Vampires, EU politicians are animated corpses and/or mummies. MORE »

TIME may have put “you” on the cover as “Person of the Year,” but some 200 million of you have abandoned the blogs that were supposed to save us from the Main Stream Media. MORE »

On the off chance anybody is working in DC today, here’s something to do that’s more work-safe than cruising Casual Encounters: an hourlong video about Washington’s Favorite Newspaper Publisher and King of the Universe, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon! MORE »