Mad Guy Loses Remaining Bearings

Zimbabwe is now accusing the West of waging biological warfare against that country by deliberately introducing cholera, which has killed nearly 800 people since August. The country's information minister, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, called it a "genocidal onslaught" and a "calculated racist attack" aimed at paving the way for an invasion. As an example of how Mugabe's craziness continues to astound even the most jaded observers, the Associated Press stoically suggests that "Experts, however, blame the epidemic on Zimbabwe's economic collapse." U.S. Ambassador James McGee warned that the country was "turning into a failed state."

Yes...Zimbabwe is "turning" into a failed state. If the deterioration continues much longer, Zimbabweans might begin to starve or die of epidemics, and crime might explode.

A Zimbabwean friend of mine once suggested that they should argue that Al-Qaeda has taken root in Zimbabwe so that the West does actually invade and put Mugabe out of his misery.

Mindboggling Stat of the Day: Zimbabwe's Hyperinflation

40 Million Percent. From today's NY Times: $1 from August of this year would have been worth 10 Trillion Zimbabwean dollars, if their government hadn't lopped 10 zeros off the currency. People are now calculating prices of goods by the number of days they spend in line at the bank to withdraw cash to buy them: a day for a bar of soap, four for a sack of cornmeal.

Was it Stalin who said that one death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic? Cognitively, how do you even comprehend such misery?

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