Bhutto Assassination

I know people don't come to this blog for breaking news, but sometimes, what can you do? The assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto is the only thing to see on the news this morning. Bhutto had returned from exile a couple of months ago to help bring Pakistan back to being a working democracy. She knew the danger of the situation she was getting into, and in fact, she was greeted with an assassination attempt upon her return. I won't get into all the details of the political turmoil in Pakistan (because, truthfully, I don't follow them terribly closely, but here's a Reuter's timeline if you want to; Reuters also offers a Bhutto obituary and bio), but it's enough to know that the world is just that little bit more unstable this morning. Merry Christmas!

For the really important stuff, you can click here for the most popular article on Reuters when I was harvesting those links: "Paris loses out: Hilton fortune pledged to charity." Poor Paris--doesn't anything go her way?