Famine in Ethiopia. Again.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in 6 O'clock News, Society | 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 ...
Day of Prayer and Fasting for the Global Food Crisis
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Society | No Comments »Today Compassion International is holding a Day of Prayer and Fasting to combat the global food crisis. If you want to help, aside from prayer and fasting, you can donate to their Global Food Crisis Fund. It's hard for me to ...
Historic Poverty Data and Race
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Society | No Comments »After I wrote this I was wondering about race and poverty. I made the comment that if you're black you're more likely to be poor and I wondered what data backed that up. So I found historical poverty tables from ...
What’s Race Got to do with Test Scores?
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Society | 6 Comments »A new batch of Minnesota test scores were released this week. Overall it sounds like good news with 75% passing the new test. But it gets interesting as the media starts talking about the various demographics (PDF). I was listening ...
Mississippi Town Holds First Integregated Prom
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Society | 1 Comment »Segregation ended more than 50 years ago but a Mississippi town just held its first integrated prom. Charleston, Miss. has held separate, privately funded proms for black students and white students. Going back to 1997 actor Morgan Freeman, who lives ...
Confederate Flag Wavers Banned from Graduation
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Society | 1 Comment »Three students from Bloomington, Minn., were suspended for waving Confederate flags on campus and will subsequently miss their graduation ceremony. I've got no sympathy for the students (their arms crossed, tough white boys picture doesn't help) who pulled a dumb ...
Living Simply
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Society | No Comments »Shaun Groves has been blogging about simplicity lately, talking about why to live simply and things they've done to live simply. It's encouraging because I've had similar thoughts rolling around in my head lately (though haven't taken a lot of ...
Minnesota: The Muslim Frontline
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in 6 O'clock News, Society | 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 ...
Islamic Charter School Flap is Ridiculous
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Society | No Comments »A little more than a month ago I wrote about a local Twin Cities columnist up in arms about a charter school. Katherine Kersten claimed the school, Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), illegally blurred the lines of church and state ...
Explaining Food Riots in Haiti
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 Posted in Society | No Comments »Interesting (and lengthy) article explaining the causes and realities of the food riots in Haiti: "Haiti doesn't suffer from a lack of food because there's no food, no! It is because the rich don't understand the poor." -Sylvie St. Fleur A lot ...
