Time and Relativity

You know you're getting on in your years when you feel as proud to come home from the bar with a good business contact as you do with hot chick.

PSA

I'm not usually one to mix my humor and my politics, but an Amnesty International presentation I attended a few days ago prompted me to add a link to the sidebar. Genocide Intervention is a fundraising group donating money to African Union troops assigned to gaurd refugee camps in Darfur. The troops are supposedly underfunded (to the point of not having boots or guns... not that that stopped the Russians), leading to ineffective protection of the camps.

The effort is important to me for two reasons:

1) The genocide in Darfur is recieving no attention and I'm sick of hearing "never again" about genocide; and,

2) this represents the first time that an entity completely unaffiliated with any government has donated money in hopes of affecting the mandate of a recognized state sponsored military.

I don't know if this is the right answer, but it is a fascinating case study for anyone interested in humanitarianism or world politics.