News in brief. While wearing boxers.

Today was a busy news day.  Here are some of the stories that caught my attention today:

President Obama chaired a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, overseeing the unanimous passage of a global resolution calling for nations with nukes to begin the process of disarming.  In related news, over one third of New Jersey conservatives think Obama may be the Antichrist.

Things got heated in Pittsburgh outside the G20 summit as police cracked down on hundreds of marching protesters for unlawful assembly.  Apparently some of the protesters forgot to pick up the appropriate city permits.  G-Infinity is keeping up-to-the-minute tabs on the situation, and it looks like things are calming down.  See what happens when you forget to bring the tea bags?  (photo by cory.cousins)

The California GOP has picked its challenger for incumbent senator Barbara Boxer in the 2010 elections; Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and amatuer Celene Dion impersonator.  She's even launched a ridiculous Web site to make it official.  I can almost hear the Carlyfiorinacation jokes now.  I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that Boxer's gonna win this one with ease, no matter how many exclamation points Fiorina pulls out.

Today's accidental badass award goes to Terry Herbert, 55, an amateur treasure hunter from the U.K. who found over 1300 pieces of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver relics in the freshly-tilled land of an undisclosed British farm.  With a metal detector.  Herbert found literally a treasure hoard of Beowulf-era sword hilts, crosses, and more.  I can't think of a bigger archeological find in my lifetime.


There are a whole lot of would-be terrorists getting arrested all of a sudden.  Would this have anything to do with the upcoming reauthorization of several key aspects of the Patriot Act?  Yeah, probably.

And finally, there's politics from Oklahoma.  Tom Coburn's back in the news this week, thanks to Michael Schwartz, his Chief of Staff.  Schwartz, during this year's Values Voter summit, dropped this little kernel of wisdom:





That's right, folks.  Take it from the chief of staff of one of Oklahoma's federal legislative representatives.  Porn makes you gay.  And we should tell that to ten-year-olds to keep them from looking at porn.

Stop voting for these people.