This morning I had the Ellen show on in the background as I was puttering around on my sick day. Minnie Driver was on the show talking about an alternative to giving lame gifts that provide sustainable gifts for people in poverty.
These types of programs are a secular take on the Advent Conspiracy video I [...]
I found this through Crooks and Liars.
Please click through to Whiskey Fire and read what this person has to say. The most chilling observation for me was this:
Our local social services department actually hired fraud investigators at the same time that it was laying off child protective workers demonstrating conclusively where our values lie and [...]
On Nov. 5, 1968, Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
On Nov. 4, 2008, Democrat Barack H. Obama won the presidency, defeating Sen. John McCain.
Such simple sentences.
Such profound messages conveyed. I don’t know if I can adequately convey how these two events represent [...]
We had a beautiful spring day here in the Twin Cities and a spring thunderstorm tonight, changing the face of the city; from grey and dirty and tired looking to green and fresh and full of hope.
And I was lucky enough to be out in it for a bit. I spent the morning at the [...]
Please click on the button and read through some of the posts for today’s blog swarm. (I dare you to them read all! there were 264 bloggers signed up last I checked!!!)
Edit 10:33 AM 3/19/08: If you read nothing else (heck if you don’t even read my post) please click here and read this post [...]
Just a reminder that it’s not too late to get in on the blogswarm tomorrow. Click the picture and sign up. And then write something.
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celibacy 2009
Happy birthday, Mom! 2008
4 years ago 2007
just wondering 2007
A couple of links to help you reach out and help the people affected by the storms in the Southern states this week.
American Red Cross
Lutheran Disaster Response
National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster
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reset 2009
Grateful: Death of a friend edition 2009
Conundrum 2008
rough week 2007
Leukemia Day 5 2005
This is guy is (unfortunately) absolutely correct. I have not not done this enough either locally or at the national level.
I need to start stepping up here. Anybody care to join me and give it a whirl? I know for those of us watching even out of the corner of our eyes it might seem [...]
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that my family of origin is very focused on the gift giving aspect of the Christmas celebration. In that post I mentioned that if I even thought about giving Heifer Project gifts to my mom it would be a scandal of epic proportions.
Turns out, not everyone knows what [...]
Last week I discovered freerice.com. A web site where you can play a word game and for every correct answer, the advertisers kick in money for 10 grains of rice. The guy who runs the site contributes the money to the United Nations World Food Program and they use the money to buy locally grown [...]
