Yay!  I've been inspired to write a diary for the first time in ages!

What do you mean, Feedback?

I don't normally do diaries on Daily Kos, but I haven't seen this discussed here.  Paul Salopek recently wrote a mind-bendingly fabulous Special Report, "A tank of gas, a world of trouble," for the Chicago Tribune. If you have not read it, you really should. (Link below, in story.)  And once you do, you might feel like me, upset that one one the few brilliant journalists in this country is now at the mercy of the government in Sudan.  

Tribune correspondent charged as spy in Sudan

Paul Salopek, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, was charged with espionage and two other criminal counts in a Sudanese court Saturday, three weeks after he was detained by pro-government forces in the war-torn province of Darfur.

Salopek, 44, who was on a freelance assignment for National Geographic magazine, was arrested with two Chadian citizens, his interpreter and driver. If convicted, they could be imprisoned for years.

He entered the country without a valid visa.  Which is not a good thing.  But it's not proof of espionage either.  

I'm just going to get this out of the way now.

I. Don't. Care.

It's true.  Maybe it is outrage fatigue.  But I don't think so.  I read a nice diary on kos with all the historical maps.  I didn't care.  Maybe war just drains me.  But I don't think so.  I still have the energy to go to protests and vigils and write my reps.  It might be that it's so far away from my reality.  But I don't think so.  I mean, I'm just a little obsessed with what goes on in Russia.  Might be that I'm an anti-Semite.  But I don't think so.  My boyfriend is Jewish.

I don't care who is right and who is wrong because there is nothing in the world to justify what has happened this week.