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Archive for November, 2006
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006+ 6 children commit suicide. + 13 children are homicide victims. + 14 children are killed by firearms. + 34 children die from accidents. + 5,753 children are arrested. + 1,329 babies are born to teen mothers. + 367 children are arrested for drug abuse. + 17,297 public school students are suspended. Source: More research [...]
Warren Buffet on a Just Tax
Thursday, November 30th, 2006Warren Buffet thinks it’s unjust that he, one of the richest men in the world, pays less tax (as a percentage of income) than the secretaries in his office. And he manages to pay less without the benefit of any loophole-stretching tax planning. It turned out that Mr. Buffett, with immense income from dividends and [...]
Obama versus Clinton: Is there any difference?
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006MSNBC profiles the early frontrunners for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton, and finds them remarkably similar: “Obama and Clinton are very similar, not only in votes, but in their rhetorical approaches. Neither of them has shown a desire to spend their significant political capital taking risks to, for instance, confront [...]
It Boys
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006“He is one of New York’s ‘it’ boys of the moment, partying late at night and finding little use for a day job.” Ugh.
Money and Me, Me, Me
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006It’s often said that money changes people. Now a team of experimental psychologists has found that just thinking of money changes people. With money on their minds, experimental subjects became more focused on themselves–in both good ways and bad. Report. HT: Bob Campbell, Guy Kawasaki60 late days account credit dateaccreditation online university boardprograms online certification [...]
One Punk Under God
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006A NYC bus ad turned me onto it this morning: One Punk Under God, an upcoming reality show on Sundance Film Channel featuring “The Prodigal Son of Jim and Tammy Faye.” Jay Bakker was a keynote speaker (download audio) at Urban Youth Workers Institute the same year as me. Now he’s got his own show [...]
Race – Still Newsworthy
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006Race, racism, and racists are making headline news again, as two unrelated stories gripped the New York public Thanksgiving weekend. First was the tragic police shooting of three men outside of a Queens strip club. Reportedly, “Although Bell and another of the wounded men, Trent Benefield, 23, were black, [Mayor Michael] Bloomberg said it doesn’t [...]
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
I need a fix for my periodic bouts with writer’s bloc from these guys (video here). Props to Ramon Trevino and York’s Chain Reaction posse! Luv you guys. Ramon (c), with my father and one of his students, in front of a mural he did for Generation Xcel in New York. Check his website and [...]
A Theology of Friendship
Monday, November 27th, 2006Good stuff over at Spanglish Gringo. What brought me to Job wasn’t the literary brilliance, nor the theological depth, but rather from a real need to know what to do – with the questions, the shock, the fears, the sense of loss, the confusion and disorientation. The circumstances of my daughter’s health – and the [...]
Youth Explosion — Still Quaking after 10 years!
Monday, November 27th, 2006This weekend I had the pleasure of attending Youth Explosion’s 10th anniversary celebration in Glendale, Queens — an original musical called The Stoop. Ten years ago, Adam Durso was vacuuming his father’s office at Christ Tabernacle when he felt God calling him into youth ministry. Only 19 at the time, and newly restored to faith [...]
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