The long-awaited political news of the year is here. Malia Obama, perhaps the coolest Obama, has announced her university pick, that bastion of crimson smugness, Harvard University.

You heard the man, everything vaguely Britney Spears related is big news. How about this? When the young chanteuse/train wreck was in the Cedars-Mt. Sinai hospital ward for the mentally cray-cray, Ms. Spears was speaking with a British accent. Arguments that she was insane: She's insane. Arguments that she wasn't: Everyone in England speaks with a British accent and that also includes Claire Danes who was born in Manhattan. [ET Online]