Endorsement Time

Elections are everywhere this time of the year - a fact brought home to my television set today as I watched the first U.S. presidential Democratic primary ads tailored specifically to my state. But, this is not the election I’m talking about. I’m talking about the general elections being held tomorrow (Saturday) in Zimbabwe, where [...]

The Palestine of Africa

I’m sitting in the library of my school, very comfortable with music blasting from my laptop through my bluetooth headset wondering when I want to go eat something. Yet someone in Somalia that I know is starving, sick, or displaced by fighting. At this moment a lot of thoughts are going through my head - from regret, [...]

My Problem With The Associated Press

I often stumble on an Associated Press wire stories and almost always I find something deeply disturbing about their stories, particularly how they report it. During the Election crisis in Kenya, the AP was reporting in every piece that “Kenya was a prosperous democracy in Africa” before the election or “Kenya was an economic powerhouse” [...]

Misadventures of Imperialism

It’s five years since the “liberation” of Iraq began. Hundreds of thousands of innocent lives lost while millions more ruined. Trillions of dollars wasted. Yet America is hated by more people in the world than at any point in the twentienth and twenty-first century. The view of America as the New Evil Empire is strengthened and embraced [...]

Pushing My Comfort Level

The two places I dislike the most are immigration offices and hospitals/ER. I have plenty of reasons to not like these two places - immigration officials are the least competent people on the planet when it comes to the job. Hospitals? Well, they’re in a completely different category for me. Coming from a society where [...]