Sorry for the massive delay in posting this to the blog, but I was in DC for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists' 50th anniversary bash for much of last week.

I will just state briefly that the media obsession with that missing British girl (and other attractive children whose disappearances we are regularly subjected to) goes beyond tawdry: it is sick. Nicholas Kristof recently had a column in the Times that said hundreds of thousands of children are starving to death in the Congo because their mothers can't go into the fields without getting raped by soldiers. Meanwhile, celebrities are donating millions to find this missing British kid. And if she is found thanks to this collective effort, we can pat ourselves on the back, secure in the knowledge that all is right with humanity.