Archive for the ‘Elsewhere’ Category
Well, that’s one way to deal with a rapist…
From the today’s reporting, at the Open Society Institute’s event “Accountability for Sexual Violence: Innovative Strategies at Work in Africa.”
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, cofounder and executive director, African Women’s Development Fund: “….She found a man standing over her daughter, in the process of raping her…She had a machete in her hand. So she did what she had to [...]
‘How we know waterboarding works,’ by the CIA
Remember that guy who went on ABC and said, “Waterboarding works. One douse, and this al Qaeda guy totally opened up.” (Okay, maybe it went more like this: “From that day [we waterboarded him] on, he answered every question. The threat information he provided disrupted a number of attacks, maybe dozens of attacks.”)
His [...]
How to: Protest for easier conceal-carry permits (hint: display gun prominently)
The Lead of the Day is from the CS Monitor:
Small groups of armed Californians have been turning up at cafes and coffee shops with handguns holstered to their belts to raise awareness about gun rights and what they call unfair limits on concealed weapon permits.
Sure, they may look scary, but they’re (by law) unloaded. [...]
And in weather news, this is why Appalachia thinks there’s no such thing as climate change
I’m literally under the weather here, between West Virginia and Washington, DC. New stuff in a few days. Meanwhile, please enjoy how much nicer this looks in a snapshot than it is to shovel through.
One more casualty of the news biz
McClatchy pulls its reporter from Africa. Shashank Bengali has been doing some really fascinating work there, but the mother ship called him home. Or more aptly, off.
I often feel like Africa is on the cusp, not only of incredible change but of tipping-point-style importance to American foreign policy. That’s probably a misunderstanding, biased by all [...]
A young reporter in Haiti
I was incredibly moved by Huascar Robles’ account of reporting in Haiti. Huascar is a young Puerto Rican reporter who had been researching an environmental story he hoped to report from Haiti before the earthquake. When it hit, he felt he had to go. He spent a few days in the DR [...]
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