this & that

• Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson puts Zimbabwe's badly behaved ambassador in his place.
• Crisis Group has a nice report out on the political situation in Cameroon.
• Oil spills & the developing world.
  
• When should you pay a pirate ransom?
• What should an independent South Sudan call itself?
• A review of a recent Congressional hearing on the Great Lakes region.
  
• A Humourless Lot covers the latest 1 Million Shirts debacle.
  
• An awesome tumblr from a vintage postcard dealer.
• The Afghanistan war is far more complicated than the West vs. the Taliban.
• Public libraries and the Unabomber.