Sparing you the suspense: Here’s what I eat and drink in Rwanda
My morning meal was so remarkably German (smoked sausage and cheese) that it struck me I should maybe put a little post up about food. There’s so much to be said about food here that one of my roommates, who’s here doing a documentary project, is basically blogging only about food. I can’t say I’m [...]
Jina 2, Mosquitos 1
Bastards.
Forgive us our tresspasses, when we admit them with humor…
From a correction posted to a Feb. 18, 2008, NYT Story, “Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location”: “An article in some editions on Monday about a New York City Transit employee’s deft use of the semicolon in a public service placard was less deft in its punctuation of the title of a book [...]
I can’t believe I’m posting about George Clooney
It has come to this. But maybe the “it” isn’t me… Hold on, we need some context: Clooney recently had a dark-night-of-the-soul (or of the red wine, depending) with Time Magazine’s Joel Stein, about Darfur: “But now, just three weeks back from having a 14-year-old border guard shove a machine gun at his chest, after [...]
Jina leaves walker behind, joins digital revolutionaries younger than her
I think I figured out the RSS feed, which is the way-hipper answer to subscribing to a blog than subscribing by email. You know, for the jet-setting, under 35, not-as-dumb-as-this-author crowd. So if you prefer to keep up with this by RSS feed, I think I have enabled you to do so. And if you’re [...]
A pretty drastic-sounding AIDS treatment
The Rwandan government recently decided to recommend male circumcision as a method of dealing with a rising AIDS rate. There have been studies that show the procedure reduces transmission from heterosexual contact by 50 percent or more, so now Rwandans–of all ages–are being encouraged to undergo the procedure. A worry expressed in this news story [...]
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