• Obama and Chinese president Hu Jintao had the best conversation ever, according to the brief, detail-less talking points Obama gave to reporters right afterward. [New York Times]
• If you are a lady over 40 and/or a lady over 50, there have been important changes re: scheduling your no-longer-annual mammogram! [Washington Post]
• Obama says that he and Russian president Dmitry “Vladimir Putin” Medvedev are THISCLOSE to drafting a new nuclear nonproliferation treaty. [The Hill]
• The nuisancey and frankly a bit boring Somali Pirates obnoxiously and predictably seized a chemical tanker and its North Korean crew off the coast of Seychelles. [CNN]
• Non-Bill Gates Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen began a course of chemo for his non-Hodgkins lymphoma. [WSJ]
• The UN and Iran have been having secret meetings, at which everyone whispered secret suggestions during a dramatic game of telephone about how Iranians can keep enriching uranium but only if they’re friendly to weapons inspectors. [Times Online]

By the Comics Curmudgeon
Many differences of opinion mark the divide between real Americans and the sort of decadent, elitist sex-crazed weirdos who read this site. Perhaps one of the easiest ways to tell which category you fall into is to examine your attitude towards the Foreigns and sex perverts. Do you believe that America is a bastion of virtue and everything outside its borders is a giant orgy? Or do you believe that foreigners have a healthy attitude towards sexuality, and that it’s Americans who are all twisted up inside when it comes to sexual matters? As is so often the case in these disagreements, each side is right: both foreigners and Americans are filthy perverts. But only Americans are also furries. MORE »