A bunch of relief will start flowing in to Niger soon. The pictures of starving African children have worked. I can’t wait until the next famine, when we can see a whole new round of horrifying pictures trying their best to jostle us from our slumber.
Mumbai, though, is a little boring, [...]
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“…like wheels of Camembert”
The New York Times and others today reported on the ABC News footage of bombs found in a car in Britain that had been used by the would-be London bombers last week.
That footage showed three types of bombs that were found in the car’s trunk, one of which looked like a milk container [...]
A totally off-topic post (or, I’m a Hippy)
I was talking to a friend last week about my love for Joni Mitchell. I’m so tired of almost everything in my CD collection, and most days when I’m home I end up listening to NPR, no matter what’s on (this can be dangerous; David Garland doesn’t make for the most compelling host, yet [...]
Humanitarian Hijinks
I love this blog. Written by an anonymous aid worker working in a refugee camp in Darfur, Sudan, it’s equal parts hilarious, sad, and engrossing. Take, for example, her report on meeting with Sudanese officials in Khartoum:
In another meeting, an official from the Ministry of Agriculture (or maybe Finance?) proudly tells me that [...]
Vince Vaughan goes meta
This is a strange article titled “Celebrity Gossip Perplexes Vince Vaughan,” located in the Foofy News section of this web site. Who are the writers of AP entertainment news, I wonder, and who are the editors at Yahoo! who decide to include this vital piece of information? Is it more or less important [...]
Just poverty
I recently discovered a great blog, Meskel Square, written by a journalist in Ethiopia. In this post he discusses the starvation fatigue affecting the Wester media and public. One reason why media outlets stop paying attention to famine and starvation stories like the recent one from Niger is that they don’t involve war [...]
Are Muslims really integrated?
A common explanation for the recent bombings in London centers on the lack of integration of South Asians in England and their apparent political and social disillusionment. Fareed Zakaria, a good commentator and writer for Newsweek who I nevertheless sometimes feel is a tool for the neo-cons, once again explained this idea on [...]
It’s a slippery slope
So now Niger is an official news item. CNN and the Guardian have published stories about this. And CNN added to the African-as-victim parade by using this picture:
To be sure, this is an amazingly bad situation that the western world has barely even known about until now, and the sooner the news gets [...]
