Stuff I Think You Should Know

Throw money at it, it'll go away

Cox & Forkum have a good cartoon about what the G8 could really do to help the people of Africa, and it doesn't involve dumping money on the continent and waiting for improvement.

Here's a sampling of an article they linked to:

What Africa desperately needs is to remove its political and economic shackles and replace them with political and economic freedom. It needs to depose the military dictators and socialist regimes and establish capitalism, with its political/economic freedom, its rule of law, its uncompromising respect for individual rights. And to accomplish that, it first needs to remove its philosophic shackles and replace tribal collectivism with a philosophy of reason and freedom.

My sentiments exactly. The Official Position of SITYSK™ is that we need to initiate some regime changes. Otherwise, there's no point- we may as well let them starve, because if nobody does anything about their "leaders", they're all as good as dead anyway.