The World is Too Complicated
Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Society | 1 Comment »Some days I'm convinced the world is too complicated. The past week is a good example: People mourning the undisputed King of Pop, who for the last 15 years or so traded in that crown for the King of Weird. Musical ...
Never Before Have So Many Been Able To Do So Much
Saturday, June 13th, 2009 Posted in Society | No Comments »I love reading indie-folk rocker and Compassion-plugger Shaun Groves' blog. Because every time it kicks me in the butt. That's probably why I don't read it very often (sorry Shaun). Today was no different. A post about how insignificant we ...
The Crusades Were a Bad Idea: Let’s Not Do It Again
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 Posted in Books, Daily Grind, God, Church & Stuff, Music, Politics, Society, Technology | 1 Comment »Update: I've been Snoped. Ouch. It appears the stats in this video are of questionable accuracy. They're not denied outright, but there are significant questions. Despite all the rhetoric (my own included), perhaps the real question this post should raise ...
Race in the Obama Era
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in Society | No Comments »I came across two interesting stories last week involving race (apparently today is blog about stuff I found last week day). The first is a Newsweek article about a black family that adopted a white girl. It's an interesting story and ...
Just Help
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in Bald Birthday Benefit, Society | No Comments »Last week I came across an interesting web site, Photos that Changed the World (thanks to kottke.org). Among the photos that grabbed me (c'mon, they're photos that changed the world, they almost all grabbed me) was this one of a ...
1.2 Million Child Prostitutes in India
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Posted in Society | 2 Comments »There are believed to be 1.2 million children in India trapped in prostitution and sexual exploitation. Those kinds of numbers are just sad. Human trafficking is one of the injustices in the world today that makes your heart ache. How ...
What’s a Necessity?
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 Posted in Society | No Comments »Interesting article exploring a Pew Research Center study about what Americans consider necessary. A car is at the top of this year's list, followed by a clothes dryer (not a washing machine? Survey FAIL?), air conditioning, TV and a computer. ...
Share Your Leftovers
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 Posted in Society | 1 Comment »Musician, blogger and Compassion advocate Shaun Groves is in India right on another Compassion bloggers tour. These are pretty incredible trips (they did Uganda last year and the Dominican Republic last fall) and admittedly hard to read. This morning I checked ...
You Can Change the World: Vote for Homeless
Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in Society | No Comments »I've talked about the site invisiblepeople.tv before and the incredible work being done there. Mark is the man behind the site, formerly homeless himself, unemployed and on the verge of being homeless again. He's been holding on for quite a ...
5.4 Acres Per Person
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Posted in Society | No Comments »So I've been thinking about the whole 5.4 acres per person thing (and not 72 square feet). Strangely enough, I find population density fascinating. Now that we've done the math right, I wonder what that means. Is 5.4 acres enough ...
Celebrating my 30th birthday with clean water and a clean shave.
