a sobering opinion

i haven't posted much of anything political on this blog as of yet. but this morning, when i sat down to check email, i saw that benazir bhutto had been assassinated while we were asleep. the situation in pakistan is one that we've been following pretty closely (or at least i have via jim who reads several international papers every day). a week or so ago, i finally got to a July issue of the New Yorker with this excellent article about Asma Jahangir, a human rights lawyer in Pakistan:

Letter from Pakistan: Days of Rage

Today, while scrolling through Gawker of all places, I found a link to the Wonkette site (the Gawker D.C. syndicate) and this very powerful op-ed concerning the editorial decisions about photographs of the carnage from the suicide bombing attack. **The photos in this piece are very graphic, so be warned. But they're all the way at the end, so you can read this without actually seeing the photos if you choose to.

Before and After the Assassination, in Photos