http://www.neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/

This young person's blog is amazing and heartening.
Plus, the Council were she lives reneged on the censorship!
She has raised "around" $80,000 for school lunches for hungry children.

A short political links post ( Read more... )

Shakesville: Quote of the Day

This young woman wrote an excellent letter, and I give this linkage a 5 cuppa recommendation!

...Amount the state of California spent last year on each minor in its juvenile-detention system: $224,712...

... Amount spent on each student in the Oakland public school system: $4,945

Wouldn't it be radical to spend more educating children, than imprisoning them ( Read more... )

I bought myself a Koran, Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream- Writings and Speeches / That Changed the World" edited by James W. Washington, and the current Asimovs ( Read more... )

Just sayin Part 2 ( Read more... )

Current Department of Defense budget, including spending on "overseas contingency operations" for Fiscal Year 2010: $663.8 billion ( Read more... )

99-year-old graduate fights against Africa brain drain - CNN.com

I needed some positive news.

This guy is pretty inspiring.

Talk about your 7th chance! Everybody says you can't have more than 3 chances to make good...proof positive that you can.

I need a little of that determination right now. Wish he could bottle it up and sell it ;)