For Your Consideration

I've recommended The Registan in posts below, but there are two posts up over there that I highly recommend, though each for different reasons (and the first is more likely to be of interest to anyone reading about it here), both by Sarah Kendzior.*

Crisis in Kyrgyzstan: How You Can Help

This is a collection of places accepting donations that have been verified to one degree or another as reliable places to send donations, so if you can, click on the link and donate to one of the agencies listed there.

The other is a really interesting post looking at why so many were taken by surprise by events of the past week:
Why Didn’t We See It Coming?

I recommend checking out both the post and the comments for an interesting discussion. There are a bunch of other posts up over there with interesting premises and back and forth in the comments (in which I haven't participated).


*Side note: I met Sarah, the author of these posts, at a dissertation development workshop at which I had no business participating, given the eventual focus of my dissertation. Sadly, we did not realize our shared fondness for all things ANTM until after the workshop was passed, leaving us with an unrealized opportunity to work on our signature walks and practice our smizing together.