$350 million in perspective: With the war in Iraq costing $130 billion so far, the US contribution of $350 million in tsunami relief is equal to just 42.27 hours of fighting in Iraq. Our daily cost in Iraq: $198.7 million. (Via BoingBoing.)
Paul Schmelzer is a writer and editor in Minneapolis. Formerly managing editor of Walker Reader(2011–2020), the Walker Art Center's digital magazine, he is cofounder of The Ostracon, an art writing site created through funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Creative Capital's Arts Writers Grant program; creator of Signifier, Signed; a former editor at Adbusters; and contributor to Artforum.com, Cabinet, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, The Progressive, Raw Vision, Utne,and others.More >>
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