Quick roundup

- Well I was wrong again. It's Azerbaijan. Weird.

- This makes me want to scream (actually I cursed pretty loudly when I read it).

- BoRev.Net has got to be the hippest and funniest place on the net:

The World Bank is so close to dead that even Shaha Riza wouldn’t fuck it these days. Today the Christian Science Monitor published a nice piece on the hey-hey-hey-goodbye party that Venezuela, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil and Paraguay arranged for it.

But the old Bank still finds a reason to wake up in the morning, sort of. Yesterday it released its annual report on “world governance” or something, and guess who comes in with low rankings? Just about every country that doesn’t support U.S. foreign policy: Venezuela, natch, but now Spain too, because they pulled their troops out of whatever the hell we’re doing in Iraq. And Italy, because they’re taking on the CIA. It’s all so deeply weak... (click the link for the rest).

- Speaking of BoRev.Net, if you've got some happening photos then get down with the BoRev!

- Finally, for your listening pleasure here is Rent Man from Max Romeo. For some reason it's the first song on this odd YouTube video: