Bahrain police shoot and kill sleeping protesters - NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/world/middleeast/18bahrain.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

MANAMA, Bahrain — Without warning, hundreds of heavily armed riot police officers rushed into Pearl Square here early Thursday, firing shotguns, tear gas and concussion grenades at the thousands of demonstrators who were sleeping there as part of a widening protest against the nation’s absolute monarchy.

Looking at it objectively, five people killed in thousands is about less than 1 in 400, which isn't out of the realm of appropriate use of less-lethal weaponry. Except they weren't using just less-lethal, they were using shotguns.

Also in the news: Beautiful blonde CBS reporter Lara Logan gets assaulted covering the protests, people immediately blame CBS.

There's a lot of victim-blaming going on around the web. Yes, it would've been safer to try and blend in, but men are often just as much at risk, and female reporters of Arab descent have been threatened and put at risk too. If the person sexually assaulted hadn't been pretty and white, would all these people care?

CONFESSION

Every time I hear Katy Perry's "Firework", I think of the two dudes kissing.

You'd think it would be the sparkler boobs, but nope.