Much to catch up

Or, I might hesitantly call it "a tour of income disparity". Yes, I am back from a long trip to Dakar, Senegal. On the way back, I stayed one night in Dubai. Dakar-Dubai, hence the disparity. So what's the tale? Will elaborate later on -- have to catch up on tons of works. My Bloglines is fed up -- can't wait for a weekend. (By the way, these interesting blogs have joined my feeds: Graycells, Footnotes and Mahalanobis in addition to the formerly listed Dan Drezner and Matt Yglesias -- later will add them all to the sidebar, too. Ugh, another thing that I should mention: this latest post by Aria is wonderful).