1 MEN AT WORK First photos of the Fukushima Fifty at work – the ones who stand between Japan and a even worse nuclear accident than the one they’re already having (Daily Mail). Must be hard to get inside a radiation suit when you have brass ball the size of church bells …

2 NOW THEY TELL US It took 10 years and a Democratic Party president in the White House in order for Fox News to learn that wars can be expensive. (Fox)

3 THE REAL BATTLEGROUND Susan Delacourt illustrates that there may be a lot of political hay to be made if some political party finds a way to re-engaging Canadian voters. (Toronto Star)

4 MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRY ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE No, it’s not the one everybody’s bombing. (The Guardian). Since there’s no oil there, who cares?

5 DUNNO HOW CARLE STEELE ET AL FEEL ABOUT BEING CALLED A GRIZZLED RETIRED GENERAL BUT IT’S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS, I GUESS It will be kind of hard to think about sex the same way again after reading this (courtesy Slog) Totally NSFW

6 COME BACK GERRY KROCHAK ALL IS FORGIVEN The Leader-Post’s big news from the Regina Folk Festival announcement yesterday is that k.d. lang will be one of the headliners – an artist who’s pretty much content to be residing in the ‘where are they now’ file. The news that K.T. Tunstall is also going to be on the bill gets buried. And when you see this video, you’ll see why she’s going to be the hit of the festival …