From a mention on OxBlog I found links to humanitarian relief efforts for Iraqis from the Red Cross and UNICEF.
We watched them celebrate their new freedom from Saddam’s oppression yesterday, and now these organizations are going to be part of a huge effort to rebuild the country and help it’s people. That’s a pretty good cause.
Doc Searls has spent the last few days with his mother in the hospital. While he was back in North Carolina he also went through and found old photographs from his parents place and scanned them into his laptop. You can see the galleries he’s starting to put together that chronicle his mother’s life here….
Pin Ellie damaged the lives of people she falsely accused. She has also potentially damaged the lives of many more victims who will be silenced because of this.
I listened to the latest BS Report podcast on ESPN today, an interview Bill Simmons did with Sugar Ray Leonard. I was aware that Ray openly discusses the sexual abuse he suffered as a child in his recent autobiography, but I hardly expected that to be a major portion of the interview. If you want to hear that…
Pin We often talk about the mental health care system being broken when it comes to treatment and patients, but I think this article opens our eyes a bit to the fact that it’s broken for providers too. Is it any wonder we have such a shortage of providers? Who would volunteer for this? We should be thankful for the people who do!
Don’t forget, tomorrow is Stamp-out Hunger day here in the US. If you leave out non-perishable food items, the local letter carrier in more than 10,000 cities and towns will collect them for your local food banks. Read the link for more info.
Yeah ok so some people are obviously unhappy about the election results, but hey, at least we can all just be happy that the whole freakin’ think is over! The complete inundation of our senses with all things election related has come to an end and now we can all go back to simply living…
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