Catholic Charities is urging Congress to take immediate action to ameliorate what it calls " moral and social wound to the nation, a human-made unnatural disaster that cries out for change": poverty in the US ( Read more... )

It actually annoys me quite a bit when people confuse religion with culture, especially in the case of the Arab world. Yes, of course, Islam is a major component of that culture, as it would be in any country without a separation of Church and State. And many Arabic leaders use Islam to justify their policies and actions. But for Colbert to claim ( Read more... )

So if Figgy comes when Kaden did, she'll arrive on September 21st. That sounds fine to me. That gives me four days to recover before we go out to dinner for our anniversary and three whole weeks before we introduce her to everyone at my birthday party. And it's a nice birthday, isn't it? But I'm trying to be open to the fact that she could come ( Read more... )

Oh for Pete's Sake.

No Personal Computers: Goodwill is no longer able to accept donations of personal computers. Legislation requires the removal of the operating system before it is resold, which means shoppers are not able to buy a functional unit. Also, disposal costs of unsaleable components takes funds away from the Goodwill mission of ( Read more... )

Things I do for my health and the environment ( Read more... )

I'd just like to point all interested parties to this column: http://girl-wonder.org/girlsreadcomics/ written by one of my LJ friends. It's mind-boggling, in a "WTF? Frank Miller truly thinks this is OKAY?" sort of way ( Read more... )

The concert ROCKED, naturally.

Aaaaahhhh!!. Just...Wooooohooooohooooohooooo!

Seriously.

They played a terrific setlist, including many of the greats (One, Where the Streets Have no Name, Pride In the Name of Love, With or Without You, Bullet the Blue Sky, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Beautiful Day, and Elevation) as well as an awesome acoustic version ( Read more... )

As anariel_di_gaia suggested, I went to http://www.savedarfur.org. I've known about the Sudan for some time, one of those things that's just so horrible your natural inclination is to stop thinking about it for your own sanity ( Read more... )

( Rwanda genocide 'failure' berated )