The Central African Republican experienced a coup by rebels last week, as their president fled to Cameroon (although some reports say he didn’t stay there long and will eventually seek exile in Benin). And yet the media barely covered it. Although I can see where they might not have time to talk about it, what with the big news stories of this week being Kim Kardashian’s weight gain and Katherine McPhee’s haircut.
A dentist in Oklahoma may have exposed up to 7,000 patients to HIV…Shit, and I thought I didn’t like going to the dentist before.
The Confederate Flag in the South Carolina capital building has finally, finally come down after only more than 150 years since the Civil War ended, and at least a decade of arguing about exactly when it would come down. If it takes that long just to take a flag down, I’ll imagine we’ll have universal healthcare sometime in 3255, and maybe we’ll work on climate crisis only a few centuries after that.
The island of Nauru topped the list of the “Least Visited Countries in the World” with only 200 visitors last year. The number 2 country? Somalia, with only 500 tourists last year, and there’s no word on how many of those were just kidnapping victims.