Dear Log,
«[...] One thinks of Stalin or Mao, both of whom Mugabe slightly resembles: Stalin for his destruction of the landed kulaks, who are doubled in Mugabeland by the commercial farmers; Mao for his great leaps forward into starvation. But neither, I think, was ever pictured cavorting in a meadow with a fistful of balloons. [...]»
-- "Republic of Fear", an article that starts out brilliant and gets better in every paragraph
An NZ electoral observer was beaten up, so the PM of NZ is sticking with the other Commonwelath leaders' party line of "we'll wait and see". She's bullish for sanctions and what have you. Because, you know, New Zealand is such a world power someone could, like, give a shit about what we do.
--Nat
