- I am loving the things Ryan Briggs figures out while playing around with data. Here's an excellent example, a chart detailing the number of New York Times stories about Somalia that have to do with piracy.
- It turns out that prosecuting captured Somali pirates is a bit of a "logistical nightmare."
- Jason explains the mess that is Dongo.
- Professor Jacobs weighs in on Invictus.
- Tales from the Hood takes down The Kristof a notch.
- Is Uganda's parliament only dealing with issues related to sexuality this year? At any rate, Thursday brought the good news that it has banned female genital mutilation in the country.
- Meanwhile, in the face of mounting pressure even from the American far-right, the anti-homosexuality bill's author says he is only trying to prevent child abuse. (Because clearly straight people never abuse children or their wives.) And since the story isn't already bizarre enough, Rick Warren has weighed in with an encyclical to Uganda's pastors denouncing the bill. That's right, I said "encyclical." Because that's what Rick Warren called it.
- Last week's Somalia suicide bomber grew up in Denmark. Somebody should do a study on whether there's a causal relationship between growing up in freezing cold conditions and becoming a terrorist. Or on how you don't win public support by murdering new medical school graduates.
- Obama gives Oslo a lesson on Just War theory.
- College football finally seems to be addressing some of its issues with racial inequality at the head coaching level.
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