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The Onion: Pregnant Woman Acting Like No One Ever Got Pregnant Before.

Via Rebel Yell I found FlashBunny, which is as addicting as promised, especially for gun lubbers.

Kehaar at Siflay Hraka suggests a solution for Haiti's long-standing problems - let them become a U.S. territory.

Michael Williams notes the problems with aid to foreign countries: much of it goes to kleptocratic governments that divert aid money from ordinary people to the ruling class, and countries that get money from us on average vote against us in the U.N.

Boots and Sabers links to a letter from an elected official who isn't afraid to speak uncomfortable truths about race and government.

Jacob Levy points to Bush's shenanigans with his bioethics advisary council that undermines its scientific and objective credibility.

Straight White Guy has a brutally funny comparison of love, lust, and marriage.

Laura Miller reviews a new history of the bombing of Dresden, using information that became available following the reunification of Germany. The casualty figures for Dresden have been exagerrated in the past, and the city's role in the war effort has been minimized. Interestingly, Kurt Vonnegut based much of his information on - and directly referred to - David Irving's 1963 book,The Destruction of Dresden. Irving has since become best known as a Holocaust denier, and his earlier research is being re-evaluated.

Just because: great pictures of spring in Appalachia from SmokyBlog. Queen Medb's bulbs are coming up, too. (So are Melissa's.)

New word for writers via Filthy Hippy Speak: Hooptedoodle