Why Expat Aid Workers like rebel militias

"When colleagues at the “Regional Conference on the Use of RCTs to Define and Shape Sustainable Mainstreaming of Successful Good Practice Related to Local Ownership and Crosscutting Holistic Gender Empowerment for Excluded Adolescent Girls based on Positive Deviance Methodology” think they are being all badass by casually dropping in news about their latest vacation in one dodgy place or another, as someone actually living there, it’s your EAW (expat aid worker) duty to trump them by reminding them that life in Militiaville is no cake walk, thus putting them in their place."

Full post is here. The entire blog is tremendous.

There is no great stagnation

Every single day of my life I thank the universe with Tebow-ish fervor that I was not doomed to live in an age when THIS was considered entertainment:

Mono Jojoy, (D)RIP

The Colombian army killed FARC #2 Victor Julio Suarez Rojas (aka Mono Jojoy)today.

I guess new president Santos wanted to send a "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" message to the FARC.

Latin American blogger extraordinaire Boz points out that the raid was a combined operation of several branches of the Colombian military and credits years of US training for their enhanced efficiency.

In the title, the "D" is for "don't" and I thank Mrs. Angus for suggesting it.