Friday April 27th MISCELLANY!

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• Iran may agree to snap UN nuclear inspections. Fingers crossed.


• The Kurds are planning to separate from Iraq. I don't blame them - Saddam didn't treat them well and neither are the new regime. But there are powerful forces that don't want this to happen, including Turkey and the United States.


• Meanwhile, Syria is not complying with the UN cease fire. A formal declaration of this non-compliance is expected next week, which will lay the ground work for a Western (read: American) intervention in the near future.


• The latest trackers are in. Rasmussen: Obama up one. Gallup: Obama up seven.


• I'm a sexist pig. It's true. Among other things, I believe that women are, on average, weaker, smaller, and are an inherently attractive target for a many a less civilized man. Which is why, if anyone should benefit from the Stand Your Ground law, it should be a woman who's being pursued by a man that's attacked her repeatedly, such as a battered wife in fear of her life. So what the fuck is this shit?


• Speaking of women with guns, check out Molly Smith here. Three first-place finishes in one day at a revolver competition. Seventeen years old.


• This, timeline accurate to within a few months.


• And, oh my dear lord, not this. So, so, not this.