Archive for the ‘wapo’ tag
Zimbabwe Update #
More crackdowns, little outside attention, no (meaningful) outside intervention. Mr. Mugabe has thus succeeded in carrying out step three, still working on four. Also of note, Morgan Tsvangerai wrote another plea for outside help in yesterday’s Washington Post.
Jim Davis a Fan of Garfield Minus Garfield #
I’m rather certain Garfield Minus Garfield existed somewhere else before it’s current location. In any case, The Washington Post reported yesterday the Garfield creator Jim Davis says he likes the strip:
One of Walsh’s occasional readers is Davis, who heard about the site a few months ago. The cartoonist calls the work “an inspired thing to do” and wishes to thank Walsh for enabling him to see another side of “Garfield.”
“Some of the strips were slappers: ‘Oh, I could have left that out.’ It would have been funnier,” Davis says.
(via Marco)
Looking Toward the Future #
I’ll just let the Washington Post’s Tom Ricks explain:
Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey has long had a reputation for audacity, both on the battlefield (during 32 years in the Army, he received three Purple Hearts, two Distinguished Service Crosses and two Silver Stars) and in his thinking. Here, in a briefing for a military audience last week, he predicts what lies around the bend in international relations. It made me wonder why anyone would want to be president.
His predictions strike me as mostly reasonable, which makes some of them all the more troubling.
(via Passsport)
The Good News in Africa #
Given the ongoing mess in Sudan, the recent chaos in Chad, the shambles of Zimbabwe, and the still-fragile situation in Kenya, it easy to see Africa as a hopeless case. In the Washington Post, Craig Timberg points to the great steps forward that have been made in western Africa in the last decade.
Reborn as well, over the past decade, has been democracy itself here in Ghana and among its neighbors along West Africa’s Atlantic coast. From Sierra Leone east to Nigeria, stability and at least a tentative version of multiparty politics have begun taking hold after many years of coups, military dictatorships and civil war.
(via UN Dispatch)