Today We Are All Green-Fingered Iranian Babes

• Iran holds a big important election today, one that may see the hardline incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad replaced with a more progressive figure, Mir Hossein Mousavi, for whom all the hot girls are voting. [ Al Jazeera ]

• The Holocaust Museum will open after a day of mourning for the security guard who was killed on Wednesday. [ AP ]

• We can fly a man to the moon, but we cannot figure out how to prevent errant birds from bringing down massive jetliners. [ Los Angeles Times ]

• Sarah Palin is still mad about the well-known rape-joke comedian and all-around perv David Letterman making rape jokes about the unfamous daughter that everybody forgot she even had. Why couldn't he have made a very obvious pregnancy joke about the daughter who's famous for getting pregnant, instead? Oh wait. [ Entertainment Weekly ]

• President Obama has basically given up on transferring any Guantanamo detainees to the US, so now all he has to do is persuade our international allies that the men who are too dangerous to keep in America will be totally fine someplace else. [ Washington Post ]

• Maryland schools are experimenting with some pretty radical ideas, such as telling parents when kids are failing, and spending more money on the schools with more problems. [ Wall Street Journal ]