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- Get yer T-shirts here: US health care reform is a BFD (explanation here)

- Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan continues to clean house: following an earlier decision to replace the cabinet (entirely), Jonathan has now sacked the head of the national oil company. Despite the herculean efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nigeria is almost a parody of corruption. It remains to be seen whether Jonathan's purges are a step in the right direction, or just more of the same. The BBC is skeptical.

- A brief history of Afghanistan & Waziristan and just what the hell the Taliban is fighting for (not much, it turns out). It has videos and photos and such.

- Average flag 1: weighted by colour (or: the Netherlands)

- Average flag 2: weighted by population