Random

✽ "Welcome to Bread.Butter.Cheese., a covert grilled cheese dealership operating out of an apartment and making drops in the tiny East Village park on First and First, starting today." ~ link

✽ Arizona's immigration law mirrors that of Italy. ~ TheWorld

✽ Speaking of aliens, Lady Gaga is in town. Dig the shoes. ~ KTAR

✽ "Americans are broke and depressed—and also swilling $3 lattes and waiting in line for iPhones. Welcome to the schizophrenic economy." ~ Businessweek

✽ "Sales of big SUVs surging faster than small cars." The fact is, small is not always practical. ~ USA Today

✽ Who would have predicted? "Twenty-one years ago, Li Lu was a student leader of the Tiananmen Square protests. Now a hedge-fund manager, he is in line to become a successor to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc." ~ WSJ

✽ Zimbabwe: 'Operation Shut Your Mouth' ~ allAfrica

✽ London has a new rent a bike system. It looks to me like maintenance is going to be a major issue. ~ BBC

✽ "If I want to win a Muslim to Christ, I surely won't do it by burning the Qur'an in public and provoking them to hate us more... The greatest weapon a Christian has is godly love." ~ Angel Nuñez

✽ Canada is recovering well. Of course, they didn't screw things up as royally as their southern cousins. "Canada has regained almost all the jobs it lost since the 2008 downturn." ~ GlobalPost

✽ The North Korean government has publicly humiliated their soccer team over world cup loss. At least no one has been executed -- yet. Sad. ~ Telegraph