You may remember the rather terrific Giant Russian Penis escapade, designed by the art agitprop outfit War, to torture the Russian Federal Security Service. Now (or as close to "now" as we can tell from the slow migration of news from Russian Livejournals), they are protesting supermarkets. The translation goes something like this: "Food in Europe became a privilege and not a right of every freeman. And we, War art-movement, are waging a war with this infernal system till the very last cog of the Capitalists machine will be torn out." Commenters at English Russia are torn on whether the protesters are "dirty smelly hippies," [...]

At left, Iranian demonstrators protest against the contested results in the country's Presidential election. At right, Los Angeles Lakers fans celebrate their team's 15th NBA Championship; the LAPD reports that at least 25 people were arrested. Good morning!

Look, all right-thinking people despise the Westboro Baptist Church, and it's lovely that a counter-demonstration caused them to turn tail prematurely during their Brooklyn protest today, but c'mon, it's been almost two weeks now: Can we please let this joke die?

Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), upset by crowded conditions on the D.C. subway during this weekend's "Tea Party," sent a letter to "Washington's Metro system complaining that the taxpayer-funded subway system was unable to properly transport protesters to the rally to protest government spending and expansion.

'These individuals came all the way from Southeast Texas to protest the excessive spending and growing government intrusion by the 111th Congress and the new Obama administration,' Brady wrote. 'These participants, whose tax dollars were used to create and maintain this public transit system, were frustrated and disappointed that our nation's capital did not make a great effort to simply provide a basic level [...]