Haiti Update from Lauren Stanley
Monday, February 15th, 2010 Posted in Society, World News | No Comments »Last night I went to hear Rev. Lauren Stanley speak about the relief efforts in Haiti (after catching the end of the Daytona 500, of course, which made me a little late). She is a missionary of the Episcopal Church ...
Reflection on the Earthquake in Haiti
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 Posted in Adoption, World News | 1 Comment »There is an endless stream of tragic stories coming out of Haiti right now after the devastating 7.0 earthquake that flattened Port-au-Prince. These 'mega-tragedies,' if you will, seem to be happening more frequently than ever before. I'm sure that's not ...
9/11 Confession
Friday, September 11th, 2009 Posted in World News | No Comments »I didn't want to do this. I don't like the whole reflect on tragedy thing. I clearly didn't like it seven years ago either (I think I've mellowed a bit since then, thankfully). Even eight years ago I was understandably ...
What Do Hugh Hefner & the Dow Jones Have in Common?
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in World News | 1 Comment »It's been a brutal few weeks on Wall Street. But what do all these record-breaking drops really look like? This calls for some graphs! In the Last Month: Down 23.6% in one month. Ouch. Yeah, that's a brutal looking graph. But we ...
Famine in Ethiopia. Again.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Society, World News | No Comments »It breaks my heart to hear the stories of starving children in Ethiopia. Thanks to drought, failed crops and rising food prices, Ethiopia faces a return to the 1984-85 famine that killed more than one million people. The Big Picture ...
Minnesota: The Muslim Frontline
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Society, World News | 3 Comments »Is it me, or is Minnesota some kind of flashpoint for Muslim conflict? There were the Muslim taxi drivers refusing to carry alcohol, there were the six Muslim imams booted off a U.S. Airways flight, there was the charter school ...
Death in Many Forms: Cyclones and Cancer
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, World News | No Comments »Last week Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar (aka Burma) and officially killed at least 22,980 people with another 42,000 missing, 1 million homeless and unofficial estimates expect the death toll to top 100,000. Those kind of numbers, like the 2004 Southeast ...
The Food Riots I Didn’t Know About
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in World News | No Comments »Did you know there were deadly food riots in Haiti last week? And in several other countries around the world. The U.S. closed the embassy in Haiti, banned official travel, is discouraging civilian travel and encouraging U.S. citizens already in ...
Westboro “Church” Picketing the Bridge Collapse Funerals
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Twin Cities, World News | No Comments »I've never wanted to throw up so badly in my entire life. At the same time, I've never wanted to take up arms so badly in my life. The infamous 'God Hates Fags' group from Westboro Baptist "Church", led by Fred ...
Blame I-35W Bridge Collapse on Pigeons
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 Posted in Twin Cities, World News | 3 Comments »Here's a new theory for the I-35W bridge collapse--blame the pigeons. Apparently "piles of pigeon guano" may have impeded inspectors from discovering the true state of the bridge: Heaps of corrosive pigeon droppings obscuring parts of the bridge's steel supports have ...
