News Shorts

Obama talks foreign policy with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and articulates well enough to impress even this jaded international policy wonkette. ♦ Vivienne Parry has written an essay on the science of sadomasochism for the Times Online in response to media attention focused on the trial of Max Mosley, FIA boss and son of Oswald and Diana Mosley nee Mitford (had to get that in to keep my mother happy). ♦ Apparently even ferrets can get the plague. Doesn’t bode well for our own species surviving another round of the black death. ♦ How come it seems the German zoos get all the cute fuzzy lil’ animals these days? ♦ [Sources: CNN, TimesOnline, NYTimes, BBC]