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Bugolobi, Uganda, 5.26 pm

by Hanna Rosin The responses to the Center for Disease Control's proposal this week to require all American boys to be circumcized are predictably hysterical. Hundreds of commenters wrote into the New York Times today to complain about "child abuse" and "genital mutilation" and one "religious sect's agenda of control" (i.e. Jews). Subsequent news stories … Continue reading Lose the Foreskin!

For years, the British satirical magazine, Private Eye, had a code word for sexual shenanigans among leading politicians. It was called "discussing Ugandan relations," or variations thereon. usually while carrying out a supposedly official duty. The term originally refers to an incident at a party hosted by journalist Neal Ascherson and his first wife, at … Continue reading Never Miss A Euphemism

Bugolobi, Uganda, 5.26 pm

A reader points us to this cool website, which you can use to mimic the tilt-shift effect. She did so with a recent window view:

Compare with the original after the jump:

Kampala, Uganda, 10.23 am

In opposing condom use to prevent HIV and AIDS transmission, Benedict XVI is not far off official US policy under the Bush administration’s PEPFAR program. Jamie Kirchick has an excellent summary in TNR: Under Dybul’s directorship, PEPFAR supported a series of African figures (such as Ugandan Pastor Martin Ssempa) who oppose the use of condoms … Continue reading The Pope Is Not Alone

Sara Corbett contemplates the global impact of cell phones and their role in alleviating poverty: To get a sense of how rapidly cellphones are penetrating the global marketplace, you need only to look at the sales figures. According to statistics from the market database Wireless Intelligence, it took about 20 years for the first billion … Continue reading The Mighty Cell-Phone

by Reihan Chris Bertram writes, And, of course, Castro ran a dictatorship that has, since 1959, committed its fair share of crimes, repressions, denials of democratic rights etc. Still, I’m reminded of A.J.P. Taylor writing somewhere or other (reference please, dear readers?) that what the capitalists and their lackeys really really hated about Soviet Russia … Continue reading Bertram on Cuba

[Patrick Appel] Ethan Zuckerman explains the relationship between the Kenyan middle class and the Kenyan bloggers covering the disputed elections: There’s a strong overlap between the emerging middle class in the developing world and the world of citizen media. Bloggers in Africa are highly educated, and generally are wealthier than the average African. (It’s not … Continue reading Blogging Kenya