By way of putting off seeing what mischief the Johannesburg Junketeers are up to now, I hoovered my rapidly expanding blogroll for the following gems:
Winds of Change (via @i330) has an interesting series about and from an American in the Sudan. While all are of interest I especially like the one pointed to by @i330 which involves fields of Reagan and kids named after the first President Bush.
Over at Daimnation! there's a heartrending appeal to help the unfortunate.
Although I'm sure he would reject the description, Dr. Weevil puts the hammer down on bogus political publicity stunts.
It appears to me that the movie stars, politicians, and other participants in the "Grate American Sleep-Out" were going about their self-appointed task of helping the homeless in exactly the wrong way.
Instead of sleeping on a grate himself, each participant should have invited a homeless person to spend the night at his house: a home-cooked dinner, a shave and a hot shower, a run through the washer and dryer of all the homeless person's clothes, a spare bed or couch to sleep on, a stack of waffles for breakfast, and a bag of ham sandwiches and apples for lunch the next day: all these would have cost the donor very little and helped the recipient a great deal. (As it is, all the celebrities accomplished was to hog some of the best heating grates for themselves and their goose-down sleeping bags, so the homeless were actually worse off than they would have been without the "Sleep-In".)
Glenn Frazier has an interesting discussion of James Bennett's Anglophones Against Transnationalism. Unfortunately the EU and other transnational endeavors are like Communism in its heyday - you can vote yourself in, but you can't thereafter vote yourself out. Therefore, the forces of light have to win every battle.
The Happy Fun Pundit is having a laugh (or something) on Norm Mineta.
I was entranced by John Ellis's analysis of Netflix and the movie rental industry.
Scott Chaffin (The Fat Guy) is doing the Blogcritic thing on his specialty of down home Texas music.
Rand Simberg has a chuckle at Bangladesh nosing out Nigeria for the coveted "world's most corrupt country" award.
