Spreadin’ Love

Conor Foley, a guestblogger at Crooked Timber, writes a jaw dropping post about the Save Darfur coalition.

Unencumbered by such restrictions, for the last five years the Save
Darfur coalition has been pumping out a message about an ongoing
genocide which is essentially untrue.  By massively inflating the real
death toll and offering what seems to be the most ‘common sense’
solution – send in western troops – it has put all the other
humanitarian agencies and human rights groups at a massive disadvantage
when it came to fundraising and ensured that it is its own message that
has dominated the debate.  It is accountable to no one, it helps no one
and it has created a self-perpetuating circle, which in any other
industry could get its organisers prosecuted for fraud.

A recent study shows that when men do substantial housework, couples have more frequent and satisfying sex. Now everybody forward that link to your spouse. (I have to thank Jeremy S. for that one.)

This Sunday's New York Times Book Review reviewed the latest books of two of my favorite authors. Timothy Egan loved Dave Egger's Zeitoun. I'll have to add it to The List. Eggers won me over with A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; I always thought it was a great parenting book. The review of Russo's latest book, That Old Cape Magic, was worthless, so I'm sure if I should be excited about it yet.