A couple of years ago I had just become the residential coordinator at the Salvation Army Community Services in Saskatoon and we had this guy sleeping on the front steps of the chapel. He wouldn’t come inside because he had a dog (it wasn’t a dog but that part will come later) and couldn’t bear [...]
September, 2010:
Unemployment takes it toll on the employed
Good article on what it is like for the working spouse of someone who has been laid off in Tampa Bay. We know how unemployed people struggle. Dozens, if not hundreds, of candidates compete for every opening. People spend months sending out resumes, calling old contacts, straining to prop up their sagging self-esteem. But what [...]
Angelgate
Michael Arrington’s blog post leads to a FBI investigation into price fixing and collusion among angel investors. I have a lot of respect for Arrington for doing this, taking a stand against friends is never easy but he’s right, what those angel investors was doing (if true), was wrong and I would be enraged (although [...]
Thanks!
Andrew Jones has some nice things to say about my blog which I appreciate. Back when I started this blog, there was Rudy Carassco, Andrew, AKMA, and myself blogging about theology and faith issues. I’ve been doing this for so long, I recently had to install the Touch of Grey hair coloring plugin for my [...]
links for 2010-09-19
The Dragon and the American Dream During the American century, rivals were bested left and right, as the ranks of the great powers slipped from half-a-dozen, to three, to two, to one. Now history has stopped, and gone into reverse gear, with the number of great powers increasing from one to two, to three or [...]
10 Revolutions in How We Read (other than the E-book reader)
From The Atlantic The industrial revolution. Gigantic presses powered by steam (and later, electric power) could crank out books and newspapers and advertisements that strained the always-fickle paper supply. Eventually, papermakers were able to invent a variety of mechanical and chemical techniques engineer decent-quality paper out of pulped wood, a supply that (unlike cloth rags) [...]
