In today’s Times David Brooks quotes someone as citing Haiti’s Voodoo culture for the lack of economic development. It may be a factor. In the mix is this history: After over a hundred twenty years of soul-crushing debt and dictatorship, Haiti elected a popular president, Jean-Bertand Aristede. 1991: Mr. Aristide tries to clean up Haiti … Read more
Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat suggests two excellent organizations that will use the money honestly to provide aid to Haitians: Doctors without Borders Partners in Health
Reservoir Dogs for The New Yorker Going down to the reservoir in Central Park at 6 AM to get some shots. All the people here were there. A fun piece; no politics, no angst, just a scene. Like a fashion shoot. PS: Prints are available at cafepress.com/Brodner In this week’s is the Nancy Franklin review … Read more
Protests have been sparked across the Muslim world by civilian killings in Eastern Afghanistan on Dec. 27. The Times of London reports that 8 of them were schoolchildren. For the first time the Afghan government is trying to hold the US responsible for a specific civilian atrocity. Why doesn’t this register here, I wonder? The … Read more
Dick Cheney seems to have a kind of Tourette’s’s problem, where he blurts out ugly words about Obama for no reason other than perhaps a medical one. He has Politico on speed-dial and just erupts. The latest is his familiar terrorphobe tune, this time about Yemen. True: we and the world have a problem. It’s … Read more
