You should watch 'Enemies of the People' on PBS tonight

UPDATE 7/13: Watch in full, online, through the PBS website, now until August 12.

I’ve seen it already. You should see it, too. From the synopsis:

The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain largely unexplained. Until now. Enter Thet Sambath, an unassuming, yet cunning, investigative journalist who lost his family in the conflict and spends a decade gaining the trust of the men and women who perpetrated the massacres. From the foot soldiers who slit throats to Pol Pot’s right-hand man, the notorious Brother Number Two, Sambath and co-director Rob Lemkin record shocking testimony never before seen or heard, in Enemies of the People. Produced in association with American Documentary | POV. A co-presentation with the Center for Asian American Media. Winner of the 2010 Sundance World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize. (90 minutes)

Read more here or check your local listings here, but it’s likely on at 10 p.m. tonight. You can also catch it streaming tomorrow through August 12. Just make sure to watch it.

UPDATE 7/13: Watch in full, online, through the PBS website, now until August 12.

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"The Top Hat Bandits and the Colonel Mustard Conspiracy" at The Writing Disorder

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The Top Hat Bandits and the Colonel Mustard Conspiracy
[the writing disorder | summer 2011]

They used to keep the money in a pouch attached with Velcro to the inside of the toilet tank, but they had to change things after they’d been caught once by a neighbor when the toilet clogged and he took off the lid to prevent an overflow. That night he simply took what they had left and kept quiet, but once he knew that they knew, he came clean and used the information to blackmail them for a few thousand every time he came over, an agreement they accepted and honored, and as long as he didn’t get greedy they thought of him more as a silent co-conspirator than as a blackmailer.
Continue reading at The Writing Disorder. . .

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In Cambodia, Comedians Double as Government Propagandists – Julia Wallace – International – The Atlantic

In the state-aligned media that dominates the country’s airwaves, enormously popular comedians, often bearing the rank of colonel in the prime minister’s personal bodyguard unit, inject the party line into Cambodian popular culture

via In Cambodia, Comedians Double as Government Propagandists – Julia Wallace – International – The Atlantic.

Brinkley tells story of Cambodia’s curse | Stanford Daily

In an appearance at the Stanford Bookstore on Wednesday afternoon, author and communication professor Joel Brinkley signed copies of his new book, “Cambodia’s Curse,” offering an inside look into the difficulties facing the country and discussing his research for the book.

via Brinkley tells story of Cambodia’s curse | Stanford Daily.

"One Sentence Concerning Ants" at Monkeybicycle

Ants

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One Sentence Concerning Ants
[monkeybicycle | april 2011]

If one is to smoosh a line of ants that have discovered the sugar and coffee remnants of an afternoon snack, one must commence the smooshing before the ants have found their treasure—after even a single nibble, a formerly docile ant may become heroic, moving much too quickly and revealing a new found agility as to make smooshing generally unenjoyable and occasionally impossible …
Continue reading at Monkeybicycle. . .

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"I will never be an acrobat," "Turning 25," and "Off the Rails" at Quarterlife Quarterly

Acrobat

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I will never be an acrobat

I will never be an acrobat.
This thought recently occurred to me.
There is no “probably” in that statement.
I will never be an acrobat.
Continue reading at Quarterlife Quarterly. . .

Turning 25 or, My First Adult Thanksgiving
Off the Rails
[the quarterlife quarterly | april 2011]

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Aid to Cambodia rarely reaches the people it’s meant to help – The Washington Post

Representatives of more than 3,000 governments and donor organizations are meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Wednesday. If past experience is indicative, they will pledge to provide hundreds of millions in aid.

via Aid to Cambodia rarely reaches the people it’s meant to help – The Washington Post.

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