GOOD ARTICLES: Ramesh Ponnuru on sodomy laws. One gets the impression that Ponnuru always read all the instructions on the test before he started–he writes with an i-dotting, t-crossing care that approaches bravura. This is a good thing.

And, via Amy Welborn, Zenit on a medical center in Congo: “Child soldiers and raped women are also given care. There are ‘very many, because rape is used as a weapon of war,’ she said. ‘In eastern Congo, seropositive men or those with confirmed AIDS are used. It is really regarded as a biological weapon.’

“…The greatest difficulty is to win the children’s trust. In the past, ‘when I spoke to them, they would not look at me. It was like speaking to a wall,’ the doctor recalled. ‘One day I caught two children by surprise who were talking to each other. They had not seen me. They said: “Adults are bad, they make war and kill. Then they make fun of us, saying that they love us!”‘”