I have been bothered...

ioofai@mykumagaya.com / yo buddy / yo Knife through hot butter Symbol-A F D M, African Diamond Co., Inc (Precious Metals)

is the inexplicable txt I was woken up by at 3:43 AM this morning. First of all, it's hard enough for me to sleep in with the alley right next to my window and the permanent flock of starlings in my neighbor's back yard, so waking me up really early on the weekend (when I still have a lot to write for school) is NOT cool.

Secondly, African mineral/diamond/mining companies (which I think this is) are probably the worst businesses on the planet. Investors, jewelers, and mine owners make enough money to kill a horse, while the people who actually do the mining work in dangerous and difficult jobs without a union, and get paid in peanuts. See realizingrights.org, Oxfam, and nodirtygold.org for more information. Also not cool.

I googled African Diamond Company, and couldn't find a website (the closest I could get is this. Apparently it's an American company), but apparently you can reach them at 888-418-2112. OR you can write to them at 2325 Dulles Corner Blvd, Suite 500, Herndon, VA 20171. Anyways, their lack of website seems shady. I did track down some photos of their mining operations here.

And THEN I went to mykumagaya.com, and found a Japanese website, which seems a bit like Yahoo (but I don't read Japanese, so I'll need someone to verify this for me). Not cool.

So for waking me up at 3:45 AM, for contributing to the abuse of human rights in Africa, and for using a very annoying anonymous Japanese website, I have now declared a Holy War against ioofai@mykumagaya.com and African precious metals.

The upshot is, don't wake me up with foolish txts at 3:45. I get really self-righteous the next day.