Gone but not forgotten, former Korean President Roh Moo-hyun’s self-defenestration has already been reduced to trivia in America, withmembers of MSNBC’s online beloved community invited to sort out his death details, multiple choice style!
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6. In South Korea, meanwhile, the nation was shocked when a former president, Roh Moo-hyun, disgraced in a corruption scandal, committed suicide. How did he end his life?
By throwing himself off a cliff in the mountains near his home
By shooting himself at his party’s headquarters
By asphyxiating himself in his car
By hanging himself
The haunting parallels of Lincoln’s and Kennedy’s lives infest the Internet, but what of Ronald Reagan and the latest New Reagan?
The unlikely Reaganaut is the bad boy of South African politics, Jacob Zuma, and the stories premise is amiable front man for expert staff achieved greatness.
Zuma is expected to be elected South African President Wednesday:
Let’s examine the amazing Reagan/Zuma life coincidences!
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Started as trade unionist            Started as trade unionist
Challenged sitting president        Challenged sitting president
More than one marriage            More than one marriage
Arms scandal! Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Arms scandal!
 Meet Mohamed Nasheed, New Look President of the sun-kissed Republic of the Maldives.  He’s the Sarah Palin of the Indian Ocean, getting big play talking about selling his evil bad guy predecessor’s yacht on EBay.
Nasheed defeated a not nice person, Maumoon Gayoom, who indeed ran a repressive kleptocracy of which the boat and a presidential island retreat were symbols. But live by the symbol, die by the symbol.
Plain spoken Mr. Nasheed has gotten a lot of mileage as well from refusing the tacky gold-inflicted presidential palace Gayoom built.
 But Nasheed has instead moved into the former Sultan’s palace, no slum.
If the Maldives ever gets around to selling the boat they may find the economic tide against them. When Iraq finally got title to a Saddam yacht which surfaced in Europe they hauled it back to Basra for lack of a buyer.
[Not that their hacks don’t do the same and worse]
David Plouffe Shocked To Learn Oil Oligarchy ControversialÂ
                                             …To Donate Speaking Fee To The Oppressed
The Wall Street Journal reports that Barack Obama campaign wizard David Plouffe meant no offense in consorting with dictators, will donate his honorarium to some of those done to by the Aliyev clan.
Plouffe is on the ground in Baku, where his comments after a closed door speech gave no hint he’d be giving up the cash.
The oil-soaked region is so blessed that even tourism materials feature gas flaring.Â