A Libyan woman burst into a Tripoli hotel filled with foreign journalists, saying she had escaped from where she had been tortured by Kaddhafi’s soldiers for more than two days. Security and hotel staff tussled with her and reporters for more than an hour, before she was ultimately dragged away and put in a car. The British reporter from the Financial Times (the man in the light blue oxford shirt who is seen trying to protect her and who attempted to get between her and the car) was deported after the incident, according to the New York Times. She told the reporters her name is Eman al-Obeidy, showed them bruises on her face and body, scratches on her body, rope burns at her ankles and wrists, and blood on her inner thighs, and said that more than 15 soldiers had raped her, and urinated and defecated on her. A spokesperson for the Libyan government initially said al-Obeidy was drunk and mentally ill, and that she is back in jail.

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UPDATE: More details and raw video from the NYT reporter at the scene. UK’s Channel 4 coverage. Video from Reuters of the spokesman saying “she was drunk” and being mocked by reporters after the jump.

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I love this guy:

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Loved this bit:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5TPY7j4Pc

Scott Adams, who has a made a career out of being marginally more humorous than the drone in the next cubicle, decided March 7 that it was time to deliver his own very special take on the War Between the Sexes, a topic you might remember as wonderfully fresh before you were born, because you either read Thurber or watched William Windom play Thurber on TV.

(NBC, Mondays at 7:30, right before Laugh-In. But we digress.)

What Scott Adams actually wrote is lost to history, because Scott Adams subsequently deleted the post. But just like one of those hilarious moments in his comic strip that proves talent is irrelevant in America, it turns out somebody helpfully preserved the text. So let’s dip our toes:

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JNOV put a link to this video in comments – as if I needed something else to push me over the emotional edge on this anniversary:

When Pete Seeger goes, if he goes before I do, I will fall apart. He is a treasure.

Do we care? “The second minority government of Stephen Harper has fallen. Early Friday afternoon, 156 opposition MPs — all of the Liberals, New Democrats and Bloquistes present in the House of Commons — rose to support a motion of no-confidence.” Actually, we don’t. [Toronto Globe and Mail]

This is what it looks like:

Today is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. It was an important event in the rise of the modern American labor movement.

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