Son of a plumber from east Austin, Texas, baby! Stardust! The tower of power, too sweet to be sour.

Brad Pitt, for taking a great George V Higgins crime novel and make an utterly execrable movie out of it. He stole 2 hours of my life.

Aw, shucks...I triglyceride.

You adipose stories like this more often.

That's not extra butter on that popcorn...

Don't educate me. Cite your claim or STFU and realize you have a poorly formed opinion.

long-term effects of western imperialism have been in Africa

Western Imperialism? Is this the 18th century?

It's applicable to virtually any public forum with sufficient traffic. Doesn't bring that horse back to life.

I really wish this preemptive "cue X in 3...2.." meme would die. It's so worn out.

As a longtime bleeding heart liberal, this article is so unbelivably self-serving and disingenuous.

Cue the self-loathing brainwashed white hipsters that are all over this site like a virus in 3....2....

God forbid that the NYT reports and photographs the truth about the squalid hospital conditions that many Ebola patients face in Sierra Leone.

well i searched for the word 'racism' on this page and your comment is literally the only instance, so....

Seriously. These images of children and dying and medical interventions and "invisible suffering" are not convenient metaphors for some writer, comfortable in her desk chair, to craft some moralistic allegory: they are the realities of this disease, of how it is handled in the US/Europe vs. Africa, of how medicine has…

Cue the race-baiting, preemptive attacks on anybody who might critique the article's premise.

"The sanitary crusade of the nineteenth century is central to the violent project of empire."

Jesus Fucking Christ. Leave it to Gawker media to find a racist lining in the Ebola outbreak. Kudos, you morally relativistic fuckfaces!

that sounds pretty badass, I almost wish it were true

It's going faster than a Jezebel writer.