Donate to Oxfam
Posted in Action Alert, Higher Ground on May 15th, 2008
Five more inches of rain in Myanmar today. Please give.
Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Action Alert, Higher Ground on May 15th, 2008
Five more inches of rain in Myanmar today. Please give.
Posted in Higher Ground on May 13th, 2008
The righteous.
Posted in Higher Ground on May 8th, 2008
Ruth points us to the news that a grocery chain in North Texas is giving out free prenatal vitamins to expectant mothers. Great!
Posted in Action Alert, Disastrous, Higher Ground on May 5th, 2008
Please give. Their country is completely overwhelmed, with 22,000 dead.
Posted in Action Alert, Higher Ground on May 2nd, 2008
One of my co-workers has been in the hospital since January as they tried to identify the cause of his infection and internal bleeding. They finally identified the source as one of the artificial hips he’d had implanted after he was hit by a drunk driver in 1995, suffering two broken hips and a severe […]
Posted in Higher Ground, The American Game on May 2nd, 2008
I love stories like this. It made me cry:
In the second game of a doubleheader, WOU’s Sara Tucholsky slammed what appeared to be a three-run homer over the centerfield fence, the senior’s first in either high school or college. But Tucholsky wrenched her knee at first base and collapsed.
Umpires ruled that a pinch-runner could replace […]
Posted in Geek Stuff, Higher Ground on Apr 28th, 2008
An interview with Ken Wilber.
Posted in Higher Ground on Apr 23rd, 2008
As I like to say to some of my younger, snarkier friends, “I’ve never known anyone on their deathbed who said, ‘You know, I really wish I’d been meaner to people.’”
And that’s why stories like this make me glad.
Posted in Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Apr 22nd, 2008
I thought this was sweet. New Hampster, a MyDD poster who was volunteering for Clinton in Scranton, made a special trip to Hugh Rodham’s grave today to drop off a few things:
Posted in Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Apr 22nd, 2008
It pains me to admit it, but I really liked David Brooks’ column today.
Posted in Class War, Fuck the Poor, Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Apr 14th, 2008
But not enough:
(CBS/AP) President Bush on Monday ordered the release of $200 million in emergency aid to help nations where surging food prices have deepened hunger woes and sparked violent protests.
The move comes one day after the president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, called on the international community to act urgently in helping needy […]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Higher Ground on Apr 12th, 2008
I wish her trust had been validated:
An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey.
The naked body of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, known as Pippa Bacca, was found in bushes near the city of Gebze on Friday.
She had […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Class War, Fuck the Poor, Higher Ground, Power to the People on Apr 3rd, 2008
Ashley Morris, the great NOLA blogger and activist, is dead. Scout has more:
Posted in Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Apr 1st, 2008
A post via Corrente about trafficking in humans - and what Hillary Clinton did about it as First Lady.
Posted in Higher Ground on Mar 27th, 2008
Things are particularly bad in Ohio.
You can donate to area food banks online, here, here and here.
Posted in Higher Ground on Mar 21st, 2008
Brad and Angelina put their money where their mouths are.
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Mar 20th, 2008
Pelosi successfully pushes ethics reform bill, creating outside ethics panel to hear complaints.
If you only knew. As a reporter, I was astounded at the things that were permissible for members of Congress. This is a big step in the right direction, and Pelosi deserves credit.
Posted in Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Mar 19th, 2008
Oh please, enough with the Martin Luther King Jr. comparisons. Black man? Check. Eloquent? Check. Well then, he must be just like Martin Luther King! (I don’t think the media minions know of any other black orators. But then, they do live in a perpetual knowledge vacuum.)
Martin Luther King Jr. risked his freedom, his very […]
Posted in Higher Ground, Humor on Mar 18th, 2008
Don’t know if y’all are the ardent fans of Christopher Moore that I am, but I just had to share his awesome post about some loonies declaring BO the Antichrist. The whole thing is worth reading, but the final paragraph is why I love him so fiercely:
Here’s the thing that I’m really saying. Nearly all […]
Posted in Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Mar 18th, 2008
From the part I caught, it sounded good but not great. (And there were parts I just didn’t like, but I think that had more to do with his low-key delivery.) But it actually reads much stronger than it sounded.
The question now is, will the people he needs to win back actually listen?
I can […]
Posted in Higher Ground on Mar 14th, 2008
Nice interview with M. Scott Peck, author of the longtime bestseller, “The Road Less Traveled.”
Posted in Higher Ground, War Stories on Feb 24th, 2008
to the peace sign.
This forked symbol was designed for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC) and was adopted as its badge by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in Britain, and originally was used by the British nuclear disarmament movement. It was later generalised to become an international icon for the 1960s anti-war […]
Posted in Higher Ground, Imaginary Global Warming on Feb 10th, 2008
Posted in Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Feb 10th, 2008
I can understand his concerns. Greg Sargent:
An Edwards aide confirms to me that John Edwards met privately with Hillary on Thursday to discuss the possibility of making an endorsement, and will meet with Obama tomorrow, as first reported by Mark Halperin.
The Edwards aide gave me a bunch more detail, including this: “There’s a greater than […]
Posted in Action Alert, Higher Ground on Feb 7th, 2008
It’s really bad, and they need it:
CASTALIAN SPRINGS, Tenn., Feb. 6 — The searchers had already gone over the field once.
It seemed unlikely that anything else would turn up. It was dark and rainy, and amid the awesome wreckage left by the tornado that had just passed here they had already found three dead. Some […]
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