Robert Mugabe, yes, that one , the continued monomaniacal leader and premier "land reformer" of Zimbabwe, has a new job! In addition to the old job! Because he is getting bored with reforming land and "winning" elections and having lots of friends do things for him with guns pointed at their heads and wads of worthless cash stuffed down their back pockets. It turns out the United Nations, not even your high school's model United Nations team, but the real thing, has appointed Mugabe as
Apparently someone at the UN overheard that the organization has a credibility problem, and took this to mean they had <em>too much</em> credibility. Problem solved!
There was a song that got local airplay by an Austin group back in the eighties that went: &quot;Idi Amin is my yard man, Kind of scary but he looks so grand&quot; sung to a calypso beat.
There are second acts in the life of horrible dictators.
The World Tourism Organization is simply jealous of all the attention the World Trade Organization gets. They decided this move would win them the coveted title of &quot;most evil WTO.&quot;
Apparently someone at the UN overheard that the organization has a credibility problem, and took this to mean they had <em>too much</em> credibility. Problem solved!
There was a song that got local airplay by an Austin group back in the eighties that went: &quot;Idi Amin is my yard man, Kind of scary but he looks so grand&quot; sung to a calypso beat.
There are second acts in the life of horrible dictators.
Definitely more threatening sounding than calypso!
The World Tourism Organization is simply jealous of all the attention the World Trade Organization gets. They decided this move would win them the coveted title of &quot;most evil WTO.&quot;
Cecil Rhodes wept.
It takes a special kind of evil to make apartheid look good.