This astonishing and deeply depressing report from the civil and external wars that have ravaged the Congo deserves to be widely read. The Rwanda genocide – one of the most horrifying events of the last century – continues in a different form, laying waste to a vast territory in central Africa. “We couldn’t believe the things these people did during the genocide, until they came and started doing them to us,” says a market-woman in Bukavu to the Economist, mixing up Hutu killers and Tutsi invaders. There is reason for a sliver of hope, with the emphasis on sliver.
BEGALA AWARD NOMINEE: “This Republic is at its greatest danger in its history because of this Administration.” – former Klan member, now Democratic Senator, Robert Byrd.
ONE PAPER DROPS DOWD: A local Texas paper has decided not to publish Maureen Dowd any more. After her doctored quote from the president, she’s no longer a trusted columnist:
Dowd violated one of the cardinal tents of the newspaper business: Don’t mislead your readers, because your credibility is your only currency. Lose it, and the reader won’t care how good a writer you are.
Amen to that. I wonder how many other papers who syndicate Dowd are reconsidering, given her propensity to deceive.
The Dish 