Occupy Wall Street: “Radiohead will play a surprise show for #occupywallstreet today at four in the afternoon.”

Wall Street Journal: “#Radiohead spox on #OccupyWallStreet performance: ‘we can officially say its not happening'”

[via TPM]

[NRO]

Citing modesty concerns, hipster website removes “sexually suggestive” male images from Sit Room Photo [Free Williamsburg]

• Osama didn’t use his wife as a shield, nor was he armed. [Politico]
• While Khalid Sheikh Mohammed provided an essential clue that eventually led to the raid, he didn’t cough it up while being waterboarded. [AP/Yahoo]
• Abbottabad is named after “Major James Abbott, a 19th century [British] colonial officer”. [Time]
• “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” No, not Twain. Clarence Darrow. [WiredPen]
• Osama Bin Laden is still dead.

*Note: Not the real Statue of Liberty. This one’s from Vegas.

Also: Just to get the wingnut rumors started, let’s misleadingly observe that Forever is crossed out, revealing that the Postal Service doesn’t believe in American Exceptionalism.

Who’s That Lady? New Stamp Features Wrong Statue of Liberty [Time, via flippin eck]

“President Obama plans this week to respond to a Republican blueprint for tackling the soaring national debt by promoting a bipartisan approach pioneered by an independent presidential commission rather than introducing his own detailed plan.” [WaPo, via Political Wire]

You remember Liberty University, don’t you? Falwell’s joint? Yeah, that one. So, how are they doing?

Liberty University students received approximately $445 million in federal financial aid money last fiscal year, according to U.S. Department of Education data, making LU the top recipient in Virginia.

The rapid growth of Liberty’s online program has fueled the increased reliance on federal aid dollars, said Robert Ritz, LU’s executive director of financial aid.

Last year, Liberty enrolled about 52,000 online students, plus another 12,000 through its residential programs.

By a nutty coincidence, that $445 million is $25 million more than public broadcasting gets! Small world!

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