7 dead in stabbing spree in downtown Tokyo

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If you haven't been following this which is understandable, but there is a epidemic. Fortunately for you I'm on it.

A man plowed into shoppers with a truck Sunday and then stabbed 17 people within minutes, killing at least seven of them in a grisly attack that shocked a country known for its low crime rate.

The lunchtime violence in the Akihabara district, a popular electronics and video game area, sent thousands of people fleeing.

The assault, which occurred on the seventh anniversary of a mass stabbing at a Japanese elementary school, was the latest in a series of knife attacks that have stoked fears of rising violent crime in Japan.

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Harvey Korman 1927-2008

Hedley Lamarr

If you don't get the point of Hedley Lamarr you're just too fucking young.

I told you I'd get goddamn serious, right?

Mr. Korman died this week at 81.

RIP dear man.

Harvey was one of the truly funny guys. His work with Mel Brooks and Tim Conway was legendary.

Perhaps I'll cry now.

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U.S. military deaths in Iraq at 3,842

Expect this graphic again.

Via Boston Globe.