WikiLeaker about to be leaked into Ecuador... or Sweden

Today may be the 35th anniversary of Elvis Presley's passing, but we have some more serious issues to deal with: the UK has sent a letter to the Ecuadorian embassy in London warning that it would enter the compound if WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, who is seeking asylum in the South American nation, is not handed over to local authorities, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters in Quito yesterday. Assange sought refuge in the embassy on June 19 after exhausting options in U.K. courts to avert extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning on allegations of rape and sexual molestation. The 41-year-old Australian, first arrested in London in December 2010, breached the terms of his bail by staying at the Ecuadorean Embassy. Ecuador’s government will announce today whether it will give Assange asylum, and my guess is that Ecuador will take him in, maybe with him spending his final moments in Britain as a diplomat so the cops can't touch him. And speaking of hammer, the superintendent of a local board of education in Japan was hospitalised yesterday after he was attacked by a youth with a hammer, in the most extreme reaction yet to the town’s mishandling of a bullying case that has shocked the nation.