Four Tricyclists of the Apocalypse

OK, this is too nice a day, so:

1. Somali radio stations forced to stop playing music by hardline Islamists.
2. Avedon runs a bunch of links but I really am linking to the animated graphic (hee hee).  Having noted that, though, the links are choice, no filler at all.
3. One of her links goes to Harper's; a quote from Joseph Conrad and a meditation on revolutions by Scott Horton.  Another Harper's piece asserts that the Bush Administration, top to bottom, knew that the majority of the prisoners at Guantánamo were actually innocent.
4. Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic on history, specifically American, specifically the Civil War and its century-and-a-half residue aftermath.