the hollywood liberal elite have ponied up $40,000 a plate to dine with geo and barack

via the atlantic: "The idea that today's emerging adults are as a generation leading a new wave of renewed civic-mindedness and political involvement is sheer fiction," wrote Christian Smith in Lost in Transition

via the christian science monitor: some black community activists see significant progress, but others see a long way to go. read the full article here

via the new york times: One hundred of America's elite Special Operations troops, aided by night vision scopes and satellite imagery, are helping African forces find a wig-wearing, gibberish-speaking fugitive rebel commander named Joseph Kony who has been hiding out in the jungle for years with a band of child soldiers and a harem of dozens of child brides.
As one American official put it: "There's only one way this is going to end, and that's with Kony shot in the back, running for his life, deep in the forest."