I'll try to write about Masha Gessen tomorrow. (Today, I mean. It's 6 am here.)

A tiny note on the irrational thoughts I get in times like this. I saw this headline on gazeta.ru today, buried among the Beslan news headlines:

A 14-year-old boy dies of bird flu in Vietnam

And before I could catch myself, I thought: but isn't Vietnam one of the bloodiest places on earth? Why do they have only one boy dead while we have hundreds? Then, of course, I remembered that Vietnam is no longer such a horrible place...