Dinner in Zimbabwe

What's that funny German word for enjoying somebody else's misery? Schadenfreude? I'm sorry, I can't help it. I keep waiting for Zimbabwe to implode, but they seem to just keep circling the drain. I found this on this blog.

Update November 2016 replaced missing picture.

Failure To Communicate

So I pull up "Bad Dogs and Such" to see what's going on in Iraq and the 2nd thing I see is this:

My immediate reaction is @#$% Iraqi #$%^, etc. In the comments I found this explanation from Abby: I asked my terp when I took it, and he said it was "something like to not shoot the medical persons."

Okay, Gerber had a hard time selling baby food in Africa, because in Africa they put a picture of what is inside the can on the outside of the can. So Gerber putting a picture of a happy baby on the outside didn't really help their sales in Africa. Or so the story goes anyway.

So maybe this is a cultural thing, like everything else about the Mid-East. Black is white, good is bad, stupid is smart.

I don't buy it.

Update December 2016 replaced missing image.

The Dude

Cool. Via Two Nervous Dogs and Dustbury.

Zimbabwe

A story from the Associated Press: Zimbabwe faces water cuts amid cholera crisis

I just don't get it. Mugabe has been in power for 28 years, the economy is in ruins, cholera has shown up, famine is not far away, and still no one shot him. All I can think is that loyalty trumps smarts. Of course if someone did kill Mugabe, would it trigger a civil war? And if it did, would it make the situation better, or worse?

Zimbabwe

From a report about fact finding visit by the ICC (International Cricket Council):

"The visit comes against the backdrop of freshly-escalating violence inside Zimbabwe as power-sharing talks between Zanu-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change break down, unemployment running at 80%, inflation at 231 million % and the United Nations predicting millions could be starving within months."