bad news

i like reruns, but not of the cuban missile crisis:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the offer by Russia (that) officials would discuss the possibility of setting up a "satellite launcher and a factory."... The two countries are also discussing new weapons deals, Chavez said in televised remarks, without giving details.

Chavez's government has already bought more than $4 billion in Russian weapons since 2005, including helicopters, fighter jets and 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles. Chavez said last year that Russia agreed to loan Venezuela up to $2.2 billion for additional arms deals.

but don't worry about that, just keep worrying about those angry white males...

update 1: i'd also like to avoid reruns of the french revolution, please:

In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, published in 1790, Burke, a Protestant, asked the French, "From the general style of late publications of all sorts, one would be led to believe that your clergy in France were a sort of monsters, a horrible composition of superstition, ignorance, sloth, fraud, avarice and tyranny. But is this true?"

update 2: iowahawk put a lot of research into another kind of bad news.