Two grafs from recent newspaper articles, provided without comment:

The New York Observer on Barack Obama's volunteer corps:

The local doctor who introduced Barack Obama here this afternoon takes canvassing to a level few others can match. Dr. Brenda Williams told the me after the event that :"Earlier today, I had a speculum up a young woman's vagina and she said to me, 'Dr. Williams, why do you support Obama?'" "And I said to her, 'Well, you just keep breathing in and out, and I will tell you what is so marvelous and splendid about this young man.'"

The Guardian on an arrested bombing suspect:

A Californian eccentric who named himself after a literary vampire has been jailed for bombing two hotels in Bolivia. Triston Jay Amero, 26, goes by the name Lestat Claudius de Orleans y Montevideo, a variation on an Anne Rice vampire character.