Right now, various parts of western and central Africa are facing crises that are not only among the worst in human history, but also are going on with a tragic lack of coverage and outcry (at least in the sources I read). So it is (weirdly) nice to see the BBC devoting bandwidth to one of the crises. Sad, however, that their writers either didn't notice (bad enough) or got a kick out of (even worse) this really strange headline: Pygmies plead not to be eaten.

I hear a live version of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" by the Allman Brothers (at 13 minutes, just long enough to give you a sense of how much cooler and better they were than pretty much any other group of people who have ever considered themselves a rock band).