Depressing Situation

Soooo the situation in Zimbabwe appears pretty bad, right?

What's your opinion on the situation in Equatorial Guinea?Oh, you don't have one? Why not?

Slate and Harpers have some ideas. Check them out.

These articles and a few others (see futures posts) have not improved my day.

You've got to love our administration. It must take something special for Secretary Rice to call Mr. Obiang "a good friend". I know politics necessitates strange bedfellows, but seriously what was she thinking when she called someone who had accused one of her colleagues of witchcraft and threatened him with death a "good friend".