Posted in seeker on May 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Kenya’s Poor Hungry in the Midst of Plenty
Places like the Kibera slum are on the front line in the global crunch over rising food prices. Half of Kenyans live on the equivalent of less than a dollar a day, and people who were already struggling to survive now find that spikes in food prices mean [...]
Posted in seeker on May 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Mocking of Clinton at Obama’s Church Reverberates - NYTimes.com
Reverberations from the Sunday sermon of a Roman Catholic priest who mocked Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton at Senator Barack Obama’s home church here continued to spread Friday, after the priest offered an apology and the archbishop of Chicago gave him a public reprimand for “partisan campaigning.”
My first [...]
Posted in seeker on May 31, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Israel has been denying freedom of travel to non-Jews for a long time, but sometimes they deny it to people whose Jewish credentials are impeccable. The latest example:
SFGate: World Views : Israel to Jewish-American critic Finkelstein: Stay out!
Norman G. Finkelstein is a Jewish-American researcher, author and former Depaul University (Chicago) professor whose most recently published [...]
Posted in seeker on May 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Talk is Cheap, Even with Enemies, and By the Way, Rivals Aren’t Enemies | Democrats.com
What the hell is Barack Obama talking about?
He says that America should be talking with leaders in Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Korea, Syria. Fine. But he calls this “talking with our enemies.”
What enemies?
Let’s get something straight. Enemies are people who are fighting [...]
Posted in seeker on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Homeless woman comes out of closet - Telegraph
A homeless woman has been arrested after living undetected for almost a year in a tiny cupboard in a man’s house in Japan.
The woman, identified as 58-year-old Tatsuko Horikawa, was found by police searching the home of the man, who believed he lived alone in Fukuoka.
Posted in seeker on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Amazing Bus Stops | Amazing things
Posted in seeker on May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We got the package. Thank you! It was the deciding factor in our decision to go to Fourth Street–it will help enormously.
Will & Emma
P.S. to folks who are baffled by this message: We got a package from Chaz Villette with cash taped inside two CDs. When I chose the writing life, I expected our characters [...]
Posted in seeker on May 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If the internet required a user’s license, understanding Charitable Reading would have to be on the test. At Charitable reading | Information Wants To Be Free, Josh Neff gives a very nice definition:
Read what I’ve written assuming that I mean the best possible thing, not the worst.
I always knew people who weren’t of my tribe [...]
Posted in seeker on May 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When I was a young man working a job that bored me, I wrote that on the wall of my cubicle. I don’t read German. I just liked knowing I had a true thing in its true form: You must change your life.
That’s how it’s usually translated. It may be better if you keep the [...]
Posted in seeker on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Aging Brains Take In More Information, Studies Show - Health - NYTimes.com
When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party, they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a growing number of studies suggest that this assumption is often wrong.
Instead, the research finds, the aging brain is simply taking in [...]
