Two interesting articles about aid

I think the impulse to help is natural and inevitable, but there is at least something to be said against institutionalizing it. I did have severe instinctive objections to the establishment circus that African aid has become in recent weeks, and these articles supply reasons to suspect it.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,363604,00.html
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html
We may not buy everything they say, but at least they are worth thinking about.

HELP!!

The CD port of my new PC is stuck. I cannot open it. I suspect that there is a CD out of place in it. Can anyone suggest what I should do?

Disgust

One of my worst mistakes - a vile, two-faced anti-religious troll who sneaked under my bullshit detectors a while back - has turned up again, making an unwelcome and unneeded intervention in an elaborate debate on the meaning of life, with no other purpose than a miserable attempt to make me look ridiculous. I told her off in no uncertain terms, but the episode has left me with the sense of disgust that meeting with her likes invariably does. Nobody likes to come into contact with degrading things.