South Africa Leads the Way

Well well well, I found an interesting article on BBC World News tonight. South Africa becomes the fifth nation in the world, and first in Africa, to allow same-sex marriages nationwide. Amazing what you find out about the world if you dig through the Washington smokescreen.

Speaking of that, I was reminded of the movie Hotel Rwanda this week, when I heard a story on NPR that said that Washington denies that Iraq is engaged in a civil war, because the death toll and fighting didn't meet the established criteria for a civil war. Apparently a certain number of people have to die in a certain type of conflict. Bull (honkey).

Remember that scene from the movie where the Rwandans are begging for help, and they turn on the radio to see if the news will tell them that anyone is coming, but all they hear through the radio is something like, "Now how exactly would you define 'genocide?' I don't know if this constitutes a 'genocide.'"

Hundreds of people are dying daily, civil war or no civil war. Semantics have a way of turning the watchman's head. And I am willing to bet that no US news outlet will give the story about South Africa more than 30 seconds of air time.