Even if for only the major motion picture about it, Hotel Rwanda, you probably recall the unspeakable genocide of well over a half a million people, in 1994, perpetrated by the majority Hutu people against the minority, but ruling power, Tutsi. When the Tutsi finally regained control of Rwanda, the Hutu fled, many to Zaire, […]
Category: foreign affairs
Penmanship Wrecked
As I mentioned, we were in Colonial Williamsburg for Thanksgiving. It was a really, really special trip with our extended family. We saw a LOT of old things. Quills, wood burning stoves, carriages, hatchets, brick oven fires. Bed pans. You know what the colonialists might have preferred? I don’t know. Microsoft Word; a 2500 watt, […]
The Fourth Front
So the cyber terrorist organization, Anonymous, has been participating in the Israel/Gaza conflagration by defacing some 700+ Israeli websites. As it turns out, their typical method is just to flood the sites with data until they crash the domain. Most of the websites, however, have nothing to do with the Israeli government, military, or infrastructure. […]
One Stone
So apparently Iran has been supplying Hamas with disassembled Fajr-5 missles, which can potentially reach Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. The rocket pieces are smuggled through an underground tunnel system and then reassembled in Palestine. It seems that this is a good portion of the provocation for last week’s exchange of fire between Gaza and Israel. I […]
Breaking Red Dawn
So much I’d like to cover but I’m slammed. Preparing for a huge mediation. Bunch of travel. Oh and, of course, tonight’s Twilight premiere, Breaking Dawn Part 2. Team Edward, here. Israel and Gaza have been trading rockets. A real UFO over Denver. The, what I like to call, “Jill Kelley Experience.” Too many choices. […]
Don’t Drop the Soap
There is a lot of hidden tragedy. So to get too dogmatic about one seems a high horse amongst Clydesdales. One in a crowd. But prison rape to me has long been infuriating. (Not where you thought I was headed?) It’s just totally unacceptable, with any regularity, in a civilized criminal justice system. It’s like […]
Righteous Indignation
We all do it. It’s not just muslims. But, it’s the weakest sort of faith practice to take offense at offenses against your faith. First, don’t be so sure of yourself. Second, if what you believe is true, then things like critique of, or jokes about or irreverence for, it, won’t make any substantive difference. […]
Electric Bill
In honor of NBC’s coverage of the London Games, I recorded this entry yesterday but am offering it on tape delay only now. So, anytime that something happens to “half” of India, it’s a pretty big deal. Same with populations of “all the ocean creatures;” “all the women who watch ‘Chelsea Lately’;” and “all the […]
Drawn and Quartered
On the road tonight. Pretty exhausted. Wanted to say something about Syria before I crashed. I’ve been reading Steven Pinker’s new book, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined. It makes the claim that we live in an evolutionarily less violent time than any other before it. To me, this seems a […]
Fast and Furious
We live in a world of necessary evil. We would have no policy in national security but for it. In almost every such act, we trade life for lives and choose less worse over worst of all. So it’s no surprise that an ATF operation like “Fast and Furious,” intended to trace gun trafficking by […]
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