[Timeout]

I remain simply amazed by the media's lack of concern at the U.N.'s inaction on Sudan. I know...what did I expect?! They're still so disappointed that mass refugee camps didn't appear after the Iraq war, poor dears. They'll never hold Kofi accountable. It's all America's fault.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Well, I'm glad that people like Nat Hentoff, Steve Malzberg, Joe Madison, inter alios, have managed to finally draw some of the media's attention away from the inane minutiae of mindless triviliaties to an issue that is worthy of our noblest efforts as a nation.

I also think that the horrific-yet simultaneously inspiring-stories of survivors like Francis Bok, have helped to concentrate the mainstream media's attention on this episode of mass genocide directed at Sudan's indigenous Christian/Animist population.

Now that the fighting has spread to Darfur, and begun to affect Muslims, we'll probably start hearing from crackpots like Louis Farrakhan. Hopefully, "Calypso Gene" will finally have some useful comments to offer.

Overall, I think the press is starting to get the message. Though I must admit, it's awfully easy to overlook the systematic rape, murder and expulsion of Sudanese black Muslims, especially after you've been looking the other way-regarding Sudan's other dissident minorities-for the past two decades.