• Eight overweight Texan women reported a dismissive attitude from medical workers, small gowns and small blood pressure cuffs as reasons they are ambivalent to going to the doctor's office. • A 73-year-old British man who previously held the world record for most tattoos (he has full-body leopard spots) has moved away from his remote hut on the Scottish coastline because he's getting too old to canoe to the nearest town. • The FBI announced today that a three-day, nationwide operation that began on Thursday freed 47 U.S. teens from forced prostitution and led to the arrests of hundreds of other people. • A Court of Appeals ruling in the UK that allows trial judges to tell jurors that a rape victim delayed reporting a rape because they felt "shame and guilt" may increase the number of rape convictions. • An all-female Dalit community radio station in India has been steadily gaining listeners and praise since the station first opened nearly two weeks ago. • Wanderlust and The Girls' Guide to India are two travel books that are geared towards the female tourist traveling in India. • A female robber has hit three Columbus-area banks in Ohio in the past week, a rare feat particularly for a female thief. •

• Obama's finally decided on a running mate! He's just not going to tell you who, though, so there. He says it's someone without a big ego, so Karen Tumulty thinks it isn't Biden, CNN's confirmed it's not Sam Nunn, and I wonder where on Earth he found a politician without a huge ego. [Associated Press, Time, CNN]
• Speaking of enormous (and undeserved) egos, Rush Limbaugh's at it again, complaining that us Lesbian Feminazi Bonerkillers won't let him hit "girls." Oh, and Barack Obama is a "little black man-child." Dude, are the people that syndicate his show just going to let him show up in a white hood, too? [Media Matters]
• By the way, McCain has finally found a point below which he won't stoop to pander to the electorate — he won't take a pledge to serve only one term (that he wouldn't intend to keep anyway) just so people will stop "wondering" about his advanced age. Glad to know there's a floor! [Politico]

• The Justice Department has reportedly decided that the FBI shouldn't have to have any reasonable "basis for suspicion" to start spying on people. That's code for "it should be cool to racially and or religiously profile people," if you didn't catch the subtext. Has anyone been to the National Archives lately to see if the Constitution is actually still there? [NY Times]
• By the way, we're placing missile interceptors in Poland to head off nuclear attacks... from Iran and North Korea. You know, since Poland stands in between us and North Korea, like, totally. [Attackerman]
• By the way, oil prices are going up because of military and diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and Russia, which — if like many Americans you're a little sketchy on geographical details — does sit just the other side of Poland from us and Western Europe. Totally unrelated, though. [Associated Press]