Libyan Pilots Ordered To Attack Civilians, Defect To Malta Instead

• Two Libyan air force pilots landed their Libyan death zeppelins (?) in Malta, after refusing orders to slaughter civilians from the air -- because sometimes you just have to do the right thing, instead of committing mass murder. In other Libyan defector news: a group of army officers released a statement urging fellow soldiers to "join the people," and the Libyan ambassador to the United States has called for Gadhafi to resign. And in the absence of any real support from his own armed forces, Gadhafi has assembled an army of African mercenaries, so that the killings can continue. What a monster. [ Al Jazeera ]

• Walmart is experiencing its worst Chinese Trinket Sales Slump ever! Won't you please go buy some more Chinese trinkets? Like Thomas Jefferson always said, "What's good for Walmart is good for America." [ WSJ ]

• "Baby dolphins, some barely three feet in length, are washing up along the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines at 10 times the normal rate of stillborn and infant deaths, researchers are finding ... Millions of barrels of crude oil containing toxins and carcinogens spewed into the Gulf of Mexico. Oil worked its way into the Mississippi and Chandeleur sounds and other bays and shallow waters where dolphins breed and give birth." Gulf Coast tuna is safe! [ The Sun Herald ]