North Korea Does Not Care For Leis Or Poi
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, having taken a close look at the election results, says there's nothing to see here so move it along folks unless you want to get murdered in the streets by pro-government militias. [ Los Angeles Times ]
President Obama hoped that expanding healthcare coverage would cost in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars, but instead it is looking more like $1.6 trillion, which is making everybody in government wet their panties in horror and frustration. [ Washington Post ]
Rumor has it that North Korea may fire off test missiles in Hawaii's direction around July 4, just to be dicks. (They wouldn't actually make it to Hawaii.) [ Christian Science Monitor ]
It took a while, but formal fraud charges were finally filed against the mustachioed Texas cricket mogul Allen Stanford and now he's in FBI custody. [ AFP ]
Swine flu has claimed its first Australian victim: a 26-year-old Aboriginal male. [ Bloomberg ]
It appears the Basque separatist group ETA is still up to its old tricks. A policeman was recently killed by car bomb in Bilbao, and pretty much the only people who would care to do such a thing are members of ETA. [ New York Times ]