Kristof on Darfur

Please check out this by Kristof in today's NYT.

And when you're done, write an e-mail to your Congresspersons. ONE e-mail. A paragraph. You can use the same one multiple times. If one out of a thousand of us took five minutes to do this, the U.S. government would do something. People are being raped and mutilated and murdered--living and dying in ways so horrible we cannot really conceive of them--even as I write, and even as you read.

Nobody's asking you to storm Normandy beach here. Just write a paragraph.

(Although you don't need me to tell you this, you can contact your Senators here and your Representative here.)