Coalition for Darfur Weekly Update

The Coalition for Darfur, a group of blogs joined in common cause against the atrocities in Darfur, has posted its weekly update, "Darfur vs. Martha Stewart". It's a great post, discussing as I recently did how the mainstream media in this country is giving the Darfur crisis much less attention than it clearly deserves.

Also on the Darfur front, Nicholas Kristof's column today in the Times deals with the question of honoring the legacy of Pope John Paul II:

"President Bush and other world leaders are honoring John Paul II in a way that completely misunderstands his message. We pay him no tribute if we lower our flags to half-staff and send a grand presidential delegation to his funeral, when at the same time we avert our eyes as villagers are slaughtered and mutilated in the genocide unfolding in Darfur ... If there is a lesson from the papacy of John Paul II, it is the power of moral force. The pope didn't command troops, but he deployed principles. And it's hypocritical of us to pretend to honor him by lowering our flags while simultaneously displaying an amoral indifference to genocide."

Well said.