My, my. Such a great big mess, such a small little space in which to write about it. I speak of George Bush’s new Iraq plan, of course, and his speech last Wednesday night. My mouth was so long agape as he proclaimed one bizarre thing after the next that I fear I began drooling …
I’ve updated this essay I wrote in college with a bunch of photos and a scan of the article about my dad when he was a 21 year old student at the London School of Economics and hitchhiked to Leeds for a National Union of Students conference. Read and see the photos in “Encircled by …
Seattle Voices with Tim Harris, Real Change Newspaper 1/9/2006Tim Harris, who as a 17-year-old runaway came to appreciate homeless people for their “honesty” and “realness,” said Real Change has helped shape opinions and defuse misconceptions about homelessness and its causes, but there still remains much to do. Tim founded the Real Change Newspaper Program in …
Here is the real political story, the one most politicians won’t even acknowledge: the reality of the anonymous, disquieting daily struggle of ordinary people, including the most marginalized and vulnerable Americans but also young workers and elders and parents, families and communities, searching for dignity and fairness against long odds in a cruel market world. …
I saw this on my friend Elliott’s blog and decided to try it – MyHeritage.com has a cool demo of face recognition. You upload a photo of yourself or family members and it will tell you in a few seconds which celebrity looks just like you ~ or who it thinks does… So here am …
Gerald Ford is dead. Every time I get a chance to turn on the TV, I am incessantly reminded of this fact. His body is lying in state on the same structure that has held up every dead president’s body since Abraham Lincoln. His widow constantly has a military honor guard to support her, sometimes …
While many of the big stories in 2006 were bad news, there were hundreds of activist successes in 2006 that permanently changed the world. and Activists won dozens of small and not-so-small victories for human rights and the environment in 2006. The fabric of the world is woven out of small gestures . . . …
Teaching answers to standardized tests should not be called “education,” especially when problem-solving will be the most important tool for a generation of students destined to inherit the incredible problems we will leave as our legacy. and Rote memorization of answers to tests will not prepare anyone for this mess we leave. Furthermore, it defies …