Sometimes there are projects that are very depressing but very necessary. One example is the Rape Blog, a weblog devoted to doing what is basically atrocity work: documenting the daily violence and terror inflicted by men who rape by tracking and analyzing stories about sexual violence in the media. The Rape Blog is not daily reading by any means. It’s far too much, and I can’t deal and I don’t think much of any human being can without being absolutely numb to human compassion and feeling. But it’s important to know that this is going on and it’s important that The Rape Blog is there to document it. I’ve tried to do something similar on this web page by documenting anti-LGBT terrorism (see reports on terrorism against gay men in Hawaii, a savage attempted murder of a gay man in Pennsylvania, anti-gay hatred in schools, and the Religious Right’s assaults on student safety). These are issues that get swept under the rug, see life in local media but don’t get spread nation-wide. Weblogs such as the Rape Blog do crucial work by bringing together all these stories and treating them as the connected, brutalizing system they are, rather than just passing "incidents" in an otherwise humane society.