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Friday Morning Diversion: Autotuning Muammar Gaddafi

By Chuck Sudo in Miscellaneous on Feb 25, 2011 4:40PM

It's been heartening to witness the flowering of democracy in North Africa and other parts of the Arab world, even as our uniquely American democratic experiment seems to be failing of late (if events in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio are any indication). With reports that Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi has lost control of the eastern portion of his nation and has vowed to "die a martyr." Gaddafi will also be immortalized in Autotune as a dance club remix.