This x That:

Know This:

• House averts gov’t shutdown with passage of short-term funding bill.

• First White House report on women in America since 1963 finds gender inequality alive and well.

• RIP: Peter Gomes, distinguished preacher and Harvard Divinity School professor, dead at 68.

Read This:

• Fetus will serve as legislative witness in Ohio Senate debate on anti-abortion bill.

• Salon.com on the rise of the anti-Obama obit.

• Today’s Big Read: The Dissenters: The New Yorker profiles Ha’aretz — Isreal’s controversial paper of record.

• Frank Rich ditches one New York for the other.

• Iranian national Olympic committee claims London’s Olympic logo spells “Zion,” is racist.

• Australian ATMs accidentally spit out extra cash.

• How a 26-year-old writer made millions by selling her books through Amazon.

The Other:

• NewsFeed: Christina Aguilera Arrested and Jailed for Public Intoxication.

• Tea x Time List: 11 Great Moments In Police Blotter History.

• Above: Pirate ship-themed bedroom, designed by Steve Kuhl for the luckiest six-year-old on the face of the Earth. (via.)