[Minsk, November 30. Image via Getty]

A mother carries a baby carriage as Italian and Belarus flags wave in central Minsk on November 30, 2009. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrived in Belarus on Monday, making the first visit by a Western leader in 15 years to the country once dubbed 'Europe's last dictatorship.' AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)

[Minsk, October 20. Image via Getty]

A big dog frolics with a little dog in the yellow leaves of a central Minsk park on October 20, 2009. Belarussians and their pets are enjoying crisp autumn air before the long winter sets in. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)

[Minsk, October 13. Image via Getty]

Belarussian teenage girls play with umbrellas during a drizzly autumn day in Minsk park on October 13, 2009. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)

[Turov, Belarus; July 6. Image via Getty]

Belarussian girls wearing homemade grass-skirts dance in a river while celebrating Ivan Kupala Night, a traditional Slavic holiday, 270km south of Minsk in Turov on July 6, 2009. During the celebration, originating in pagan times, people plait wreaths, jump over fires, and swim. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)

[Ozertso, Belarus; June 21. Image via Getty]

Young women wearing fiancee's gown parade as they take part in a Bride Parade on June 21, 2009 near the village of Ozertso, outside Minsk. AFP PHOTO/ VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)

[Minsk, June 19. Image via Getty]

The hair of Belarussian girls blows in the wind during preparation activities for the nation's Independence Day festivities in Minsk on June 19, 2009. Belarus will celebrate Independence Day on July 3. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)

[Minsk, May 9. Image via Getty]

A Belarussian WWII veteran (2-R) dances with a group of young women in downtown Minsk on May 9, 2009 during Victory Day celebrations commemorating the end of WWII. Belarus was heavily involved in the war as its soldiers served in the Soviet Red Army and many battles were fought on its territory. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)

• Wyoming caucus tomorrow! Obama is expected to win. Because it's the home state of his distant cousin Dick Cheney? Nah, but I thought I'd use this bizarre picture anyway. [AP, Rolling Stone]
  
• I couldn't exactly run another Samantha Power pic. But here she is in the news again, talking about how that whole sixteen month plan is unrealistic and stupid or something that will no doubt be spun 47.5 different ways. [Politico]
  
• Employers cut more jobs in February than they have in five years. What sector was hit the hardest? Ummmmm, all of them! [Yahoo!]
  
• Ooooh, look, a fun ranking of corporate America's fifty biggest single paydays! [Vanity Fair]
  
• Speaking of! Virginia Rep. Tom Davis valiantly came to their recipients' defense today in Congress, because cross-examining the warmhearted captains of industry behind the mortgage crisis is really just like sacrificing virgins. [Wonkette]
  
• Speaking semi- also of! Obama campaign manager David Plouffe wants to see Clinton's tax returns, suggests she try out the photocopying services at Kinko's. [Wash Post]
  
• Marion Jones went to jail. [People]
  
• Michigan Senator Carl Levin thinks everyone should just forget the fuck about his disenfranchised voters already. [CNN]

• OMG Chinese army-trained hackers NO ONE IS SAFE. [CNN]
• Italian adulteresses are now officially allowed to lie about their affairs to protect their reputations. No word on adulterers, but it's apparently a refreshing change of pace for the Court of Cassation, which once issued that a woman could not be raped by definition if she was wearing tight jeans, since the jeans could only be removed with her consent. . [BBC]
• All that time it was the Clinton campaign that wanted to reassure the Canadians about NAFTA, not the Obama campaign! What a silly mix-up. [MSNBC]
• Hey! Remember that time you were almost a Democrat, John McCain. No, not that time, the time when Kerry wanted you for a running mate...Well alright then! [Real Clear Politics]
• "Pillow talk??? Girl, I need to have someone come and clean up all the feathers from our pillow fights!" An excerpt from Dyson v. Dyson, wherein a Clinton supporter marries an Obama supporter. [The Root]
• Belarus is kicking out our ambassador. I know, right? I didn't know that we'd imposed economic sanctions on Belarus, charging that the national gas company is tacitly controlled by its increasingly brutal dictator Alexander Lukashenko either. But like, it sounds pretty plausible, huh? [Wash Post]