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A man was arrested in Milan after he tried to sneak into Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi’s hospital room. Can you imagine that happening in America, an uninvited person just wandering up to the president? Hahaha. (BBC)
A drug manufacturer has recalled 800,000 doses of the Swine Flu Vaccine for Kids. But, um, don’t worry, they say? (San Francisco Chronicle)
Britain will probably not be able to have a major role in the Middle East peace process if it insists on arresting Israeli officials whenever they think about entering the country. (Jerusalem Post)
A University of North Dakota student has discovered that jokes about rape aren’t actually funny. Change we can believe in! (The Dakota Student)
The economy is pretty terrible, but it could have been worse. Therefore, Ben Bernanke is your TIME Person of the Year. (TIME)

Pat Robertson Does Not Care For Your New-Fangled Bigotry

Poor Pat Robertson! All this talk about affirmative action and identity politics has confused him and made him nostalgic for some good old-fashioned racism, when you could just beat a nigger for sitting at your lunch counter. (TPM Muckraker)
Well Iran went to the polls today to choose whether their next president will be the conservative incumbent, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or Mir-Hossein Moussavi, who is running on a platform of change. Why does this all sound so familiar? Anyway, voting is basically done and in true democratic fashion both candidates claim to have won 60% of the vote and are both declaring victory. Let freedom ring! (MSNBC)
By now you have probably heard that Britain is rather displeased that its petulant colony of Bermuda agreed to accept four Chinese Uighur prisoners from Guantanamo Bay without consulting with the British government. Well, it turns out that in addition to not saying anything to the Brits, Bermuda Premier Dr. Ewart Brown forgot to mention it to his own government. Whoops! (Royal Gazette)
Former President George H.W. Bush, aka “that Dubya asshole’s father,” celebrated his 85th birthday by giving an interview about Sonia Sotomayor, oh, and also he jumped out of a plane. (CNN)