News of the Day for 1.7.10

• More Missourians behaving badly. We are on a roll. This time, some nutter charges into ABB Power, off of I-70. The St. Louis P-D reports at least 3 fatalities. The BBC includes a little map identifying the Show Me State.
• Jonathan Ross bids adieu to the Beeb after 13 years. Some hate him, I don't know many who love him, but we all still watched his show on occasion. You can blame phone call incident with Russell Brand or his out-of-control salary, but we know what really did him in - that dumb ass set design that forced his guests to twist around every time they screened a clip.
• The Beeb hunts for Ugandan witchdoctors who hunt for children - to sacrifice. Right, when your country has an Anti-Human Sacrifice and Trafficking Task Force, not sure that's a good sign.
• Nice try, Microsoft and HP, but no one is waiting for a Windows 7 tablet, as is evidenced by the mixed reception at Las Vegas's tech expo.
• In other Consumer Electronics Show news, internet on your dashboard. The genius who created this gadget needs a rendezvous with the safety czar.
• Stop bitching about the cold, folks. In Oymyakon, Russia, eye glasses freeze to your face. Meanwhile, correspondents from The Times dish on local tricks to weather the...weather. They include the exotic ear muff (from the D.C. reporter) and some version of badger fat which is smeared over the kiddies' faces (that's what goes down in Siberia).
  
• Ukraine's twin town, that is, a town with many twins.
• Bogus marriages create a problem for UK immigration. So would they object to an American trying to con her way in?
• Oh, David Miliband's at it again. Someone tell the guy that there's no discreet way of staging a coup.
• Meanwhile, on the other side of the messy aisle, Evan Davis nailed David Cameron on the Today program, by which I mean Davis inquired about Cameron's baby smooth mug plastered across Britain. We smell airbrush...
  
• Crazymotherfuckin' Skulls and Bones. Apparently an actual box is not good enough for Yalies to stuff ballots into; they need a hinged skull to properly cast votes. On sale at Christie's later this month.
• Andrew Motion's poetry slam: less rap, more...poetry in students' English lessons.
  
• The father of Harlem, Percy Sutton, is laid to rest.
• Not that Glenn Beck could appreciate his contributions. I hesitate unload on a blog mostly about posh totties, but I do have an adult side and really, Beck might do better in a hole. Just saying. At the very least, he needs to stop pretending he knows anything about race - the history of, relations, societal impact, etc.
• Or he could move to Australia where KFC just released, then withdrew, an advert suggesting the colonel's recipe could appease a crowd of West Indies cricket fans. This on top of Indian accusations of racism over the deaths of several students in the past few years. Not the best time to be down under.
  
• A sober reminder that spies are not just a players in a television drama. The New York Times reflects on some of the CIA agents killed in a suicide blast in Afghanistan last week.
• And finally, 11 underused foods to keep you healthy.