Roundup August 26th, 2007

From a comment Larry left, I discovered his blog, and from there this page of resources for students. An impressive list, although there are lots more resources than student-produced pages. One of the links was to Dandelife “a social biography network”. One of the stories I clicked on at random referred to sleep apnea and [...]

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Broad Prosperity vs zero-sum games

I blogged earlier some of my responses to reading Kozol’s Savage Inequalities. My biggest impression was the “zero-sum game” mentality of almost all of those who either justify the inequalities or argue against any real attempts to rectify the situation. I have a feeling that, while there are strong human, Christian (and I’m not excluding [...]

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When people turn against people…

Human beings killed three other human beings on Wednesday northwest of Baghdad. In Iraq on Wednesday, major violence continued against human beings and the human beings guarding them. Human beings detonated a car bomb in the southern Baghdad district of Saidiya, which killed eight human beings, and wounded 27. In Iskandariya south of Baghdad, human [...]

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Blogging to broaden your perspective

Karl Fisch responded to my post on his impressive presentation “Did You Know?” and it raised an issue I’ve been wanting to write about. But first, go see the Doonesbury cartoon for Sunday, March 4th 2007. Are you back? OK. Karl writes As far as the “nationalistic” piece, that was not the intent – please [...]

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