Speaking of Professor Rummel...

...my brain really hurts after all the work it had to do for that last post, so without further ado, I would like to depart from the normal course of my blog and bring you some adult content.

No, not that, kiddies.

From the blog Democratic Peace by R. J. Rummel, Professor Emeritus of Political Science:

I've posted a number of blogs on the genocide/democide in Sudan, such as "6,000 More Darfurians to be MURDERED in July", and so far the response by the democracies and the UN has been tepid. This is because the major media has not been engaged in informing the public of this horror. Were they to show daily the dead and dying children, the starving, the destroyed villages, the refugee camps, the dying in makeshift hospitals, and so on, for photo after photo, as they are doing for the terrorist attacks in Iraq, then something would be done by pubic demand. This is from "ThinkProgress.org:

Apparently you can’t even pay TV networks to cover genocide: American Progress created a television advertisement for beawitness.org , our netroots campaign that calls out the television news media for their deplorable coverage of the genocide in Darfur. Over the last few days, three Washington DC television affiliates, NBC-4, CBS-9, and ABC-7, informed us that they refuse to air the ad.Since the major networks seem to have their hands full covering stories like Natalee Holloway and the Runaway Bride, does what the media won’t — puts the spotlight on Darfur, and suggests that genocide warrants increased coverage...

In a democracy, there is a simple equation: daily photos of dead, dying, and starving children ---> public outrage and demands for intervention ---> outraged politicians ---> intervention to stop the killing. It was the photos of starving Somalian children that provoked the American intervention in Somalia, and although the death of American Rangers and our hasty withdrawal gave the intervention a bad name, It SAVED ABOUT A MILLION SOMALIANS FROM STARVATION. But, you never hear about that.

The world can be a very bad place, kiddies. What makes it worse is people are responsible for most of the bad stuff.

The good news? We have free will. (Oh, Fyodor, you soft-headed old utopian!)