[Beijing, October 1. Image via Getty]

BEIJING - OCTOBER 01: Women in costume take part in a parade to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 2009 in Beijing, China. The grand celebrations to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China included a military parade and mass pageant consisting of about 200,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images)

[Hong Kong, June 4. Image via Getty]

HONG KONG, CHINA - JUNE 04: A young girl holds up her candles as she joins thousands others in a candlelight vigil for the 20th anniversary of June 4 Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing at Victoria Park on June 4, 2009 in Hong Kong, China. Pro-democracy activists reiterate their pleas for the people who ordered the massacre to be held accountable, for the release of dissidents still imprisoned and for the vindication of the pro-democracy movement of 1989. The Pro-democracy activists also called for democracy to be realised by ending the one-party dictatorship in China. (Photo by MN Chan/Getty Images)

[Beijing, June 3. Image via Getty]

Children play as Chinese paramilitary policemen (R) keep watch on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 3, 2009. Chinese police tightened restrictions on perceived trouble makers on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the crackdown on Tiananmen democracy protests, where hundreds, if not thousands of unarmed protesters and ordinary citizens were killed in the streets of Beijing as the military moved in to quell seven weeks of peaceful democracy protests. AFP PHOTO / Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images)

[Beijing, June 1. Image via Getty]

A child plays on railings in front of the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 1, 2009. Twenty years after their forebears stood up for political reform with the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and the resulting bloody crackdown, today's Beijing students shrug that off with a mixture of ignorance, political apathy, and different priorities. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images)

• German researchers have discovered that Victoria Beckham is the descendant of Communist Carl Heinrich Pfänder, who fled to London in 1848 after participating in the failed revolution with Karl Marx. In other news, up is down, lions have lain down with lambs and black is now officially white. [Reuters]
• Bob Novak, by the way, is retiring today to focus on his brain tumor. That's a kind of karmic bullshit. [Editor & Publisher, Media Matters]
• Gasoline prices are dropping, though, just as Obama announces that he thinks we should open up the strategic reserves to lower prices. [LA Times, NY Times]
• In response, the McCain campaign is distributing tire pressure gauges to mock Obama's energy plan. Do they have a dedicated group of fratty morons making up strategy there or something? [Politico]

• Speaking of morons, John McCain told a Democratic party delegate stripped of her seat at the Democratic convention for endorsing McCain that God will reward her in heaven for doing the right thing. Who knew he got the coveted God endorsement? [HuffPo]
• While McCain was busy handing out tchotchkes and blessings from heaven, Obama was planning his own birthday party fundraiser that will rake in $5 million for his campaign and the DNC. That's a lot of tire gauges. [Boston Globe]
• And while they're doing that, mortgage defaults among borrowers with good credit have started to rise, so don't expect the housing crisis to end any time soon. [NY Times]

• Marc Jacobs eats breakfast? Does he throw it up afterwards? [WWD, last item]
  
• Super-nice Australian dude Napoleon Perdis (yes, that's really his name) and his eponymous makeup line to become official beauty sponsor of this year's Emmy Awards. The guy is so genuinely nice, we don't even have anything snarky to say about this. [WWD, 2nd item]
  
• Jessica Biel wears Express? Can she not even spring for, like, the Gap? [People via Fab Sugar]
  
• Why are we not at all surprised that Thom Brown, designer of menswear for douchebags, loves Ayn Rand and Gustav Mahler? [The Fashion Informer]

• Explaining how she developed her personal style, English socialite Daphne Guinness responds, "I grew up in an artists' colony near Barcelona with Salvador Dali and the Surrealists, so my dress sense is very coloured by my youth. Everybody knew that Dali was the most crazy; you'd go to his house and he would have lobsters in his pool." [Vogue UK]
• The latest line of accessories by Temperley London are supposed to be inspired by Russia in the early 1900's. We're not sure what burgeoning communism has to do with outrageously expensive leather handbags. [Vogue UK]
• More opportunities to buy Urban Outfitters stuff online? Wow. We're so excited we can barely contain ourselves. [The Budget Fashionista]