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Break Dancing In The Streets

While looters in Baghdad participate in jubilant anarchy, robbing hospitals of their lightbulbs and incubators, burning down government offices and embassies, attempting to pillage orphanages, and stealing 5000 year old artifacts from the National Museum of Iraq, it's good to know that the Ministry of Oil is well protected. By the way, this war isn't about oil....

Among the thousands of people who protested yesterday comes this picture from outside a KFC in Pakistan:
Kentucky Fried Protester
(AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
I'm glad that if I ever go to Pakistan I'll be able to have a bucket of extra crispy Kentucky-style chicken. Thanks, globalization!