Morning Constitutional – Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Good morning, folks. First ThunderCats, now Voltron\’s coming back. Now, your morning constitutional:

A headline I, for one, never thought possible: Obama looking for \’whose ass to kick.\’ Although, the AP\’s is pretty great as well: Obama talks tough on spill; keisters in peril.

Iran is defiant in the face of potential sanctions as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warns that Iran will not agree to talks on its nuclear program if the UN passes sanctions this week.

“Fuck my victims. I carried them for twenty years, and now I’m doing 150 years.” Bernie Madoff: class act.

A 25-year-old study published in Pediatrics finds that children in lesbian households were psychologically well-adjusted and had fewer behavioral problems than their peers.

Spanish public sector employees are striking in protest of the government\’s planned budget cuts.

Google\’s got World Cup fever too.

Uruguayan President Jose Mujica claims his net worth is less than a 1987 Volkswagen Beetle.

President Obama has so far nominated a record number of women and minorities to lower courts.

The White House announced Tuesday that the President is calling on domestic agencies to develop plans to cut their budgets by as much as five percent.

How the German president had to resign because he publicly confronted the uncomfortable truth of Germany\’s place in the world.

Growing number of colleges allowing students to bring pets to campus.

The Economist: Can Japan\’s fifth prime minister in four years succeed where others have failed?

Forty percent of of those employed work in low-wage service jobs. Why Wal-Mart\’s sales should have everyone worried.

Finally, now your cats can tweet with new feline liveblogging device.