…Or How an Unemployed, Fat Guy Thought It’d be a Good Idea to Bike Cross-Country for Kenya
Joe’s right. Words are not enough.
Once, long ago, words bore the power to inspire change. Now, inspiration is a category of greeting cards and change is a campaign mantra.
We have a need to feel empathy and we fulfill that...
“It is a sad fact that on this earth at this late date there are still two worlds, “the privileged world” and “the forgotten world”. The privileged world consists of the affluent, developed nations, comprising twenty-five to thirty percent of the world population, in which most of the people live in a luxury never before...
This is absolute poverty: a condition of life so limited as to prevent realization of the potential of the genes with which one is born; a condition of life so degrading as to insult human dignity–and yet a condition of life so common as to be the lot of some 40% of the peoples of...
I’ve been aware of these sites for a while now, but I know some of you aren’t quite as nerdy as I am. Seriously, I get it. You have real lives, so you’re not exploring the Internet like I am. If there are three sites I would strongly suggest you get to know- ones that...
Our culture divides people into two classes: civilized men, a title bestowed on the persons who do the classifying; and others, who have only the human form, who may perish or go to the dogs for all the “civilized men” care.
Oh, this “noble” culture of ours! It speaks so piously of human dignity and human...
