Dith Pran died today. I wish I had more time to write more about this extraordinary individual. Suffice it to say, when you coin the term "killing fields" and not from your comfy tenured chair in academia but, rather, because you walked through them escaping the Khmer Rouge, you have quite the story to tell. Not too many people's stories include the murder of fifty relatives and having to survive by eating insects, rats and human corpses.

The tenth anniversary of Pol Pot's death (possible suicide) is coming up this April 15th. I hope there's a hell, if for no other reason than so that S.O.B. will suffer eternal damnation...along with the other two individuals who were in a category all to themselves defining evil in the twentieth century (Hitler and Stalin).