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* The Ryan proposal is to kill medicare to pay for yet more tax cuts for the rich. *facepalm* Please Democrats, show spines and go after the Republicans and don't cave.

* Yet another reason Wil Wheaton is cool: He's suggested that people donate the money they would spend going to see the Charlie sheen show to a battered woman's shelter.

* We are no longer officially supporting the Yemeni government, but they are still using our military aid to do things like sniper shoot protesters in the head.

* The incredibly brave Iman al-Obeidi continues to speak out about government rape of women in Libya and her own abuse at their hands. I very much hope she survives as Libya needs women like her.

Props to her family and tribe for standing behind her.

* I do not see a takeover by other Qaddafis as an improvement.

* They found the bodies of the missing reactor workers in japan in a basement four days ago, but have only announced it today. They are pouring radioactive water into the ocean now.

* A thing on Labor history: http://feyandstrange.livejournal.com/1074989.html

I should probably write on the Everett Massacre, but I haven't the heart.