yes, that is a picture of barack obama, and i'm assuming kate, on a unicorn.  it was made by jubilations on deviant art. after the matters of business in the last few days i think there needs to be more pictures of obama doing peaceful things. admittedly this is about 5 steps too far in that direction, but what are you going to do? 

speaking of the death of osama bin laden, here is a video of people celebrating that in america. i'm not comment on it, i just think its worth sharing.

oh yeah, and i was going to do a story, from norse mythology. the story of otr, the way i remember it at least, is my favorite. it occurs just after thor and odin meet loki, and declare him part of the aesir.

odin, thor, and loki were walking home from some, you know, amazing adventures, somewhere, and one night as they were getting ready to make camp, have a rest, thor got out his fishing rod and went fishing in a stream nearby.

soon he was getting a bite, and caught a reasonable sized fish for him and his companions to eat. as he was going back to odin and loki, an otter ran up and stole his fish, jumped into the stream and paddled to the other side of the river, and lay against a tree, eating the fish greedily.
needless to say, thor did not like this. he yelled, he screamed in rage, and threw his trusty hammer, mjolnir, at the otter, killing it outright.

using his god-aesir powers, he went across the stream, collected the otters body, went back to odin and loki and told them the story. loki skinned the otter, because otter pelts had magic powers, and i think they ate the meat.

a few days later, they came across a castle, and wanted to stay the night, replenish their supplies, drink some ale, all that stuff. they met the king, who told them over dinner about his eldest son, otr, who liked turning himself into an otter and eating freshly caught fish, who had dissappeared a few days ago.

at this point, i always imagine loki and odin looking at thor, who looks back at them, who looks back at the king, and says 'um...uh...what?'

because the king is not allowed to kill them, because they are his guests (i don't think that usually stopped them in those days) he demands the otter pelt be filled with yellow gold, and covered in red gold, whatever that is.

they do this, but one whisker still needs to be covered, so loki gives up his ring, andvarinaut, which creates gold for the wearer, but is also cursed, whomever owns it shall die horribly. the debt is paid, and the gods are allowed to leave.

oh, and i think loki hadn't had the ring long enough for the curse to work on him. just want to point that out. i think the king ended up eating his other son and killing himself, but that might be another story...