Tag: society
member name: Anitra Raging Granny / Raging Moderate Freeman
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May 19, 2007 05:33 PM EDT --
This is the text of a speech I gave at the Washington State Coalition for the Homeless on May 9 (2007). A lot of background knowledge is assumed that the audience here might not share with Coalition . . .
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May 08, 2007 01:53 AM EDT --
Let's look at a scenario:
One of your downtown streets has a big pothole in it. Very big pothole. It's been growing for years, and other than a lot of new hires in the auto repair . . .
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May 04, 2007 02:12 PM EDT --
Like the poor, evil will always be with us. That does not mean we should be fatalistic about evil. It means that we should always be ready to address it.
How did the girl next door end up leading a naked . . .
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May 21, 2007 01:40 AM EDT --
The title of one of Jim Hightower's books is There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Lines and Dead Armadillos. The attitude is generally shared even by those on the opposite . . .
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May 05, 2007 03:04 AM EDT --
The "culture wars" over "who shall define truth" are made passionate both because the accuracy of our knowledge is essential to our physical survival, and because the security of our . . .
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May 08, 2007 04:43 AM EDT --
The last article I published, "How Not to End Homelessness," is the opening of a speech I am going to be giving on Wednesday. This is the outline of the speech:
How not to end homelessness: . . .
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May 05, 2007 01:34 PM EDT --
There have been conservatives and liberals ever since Og the caveman went out to meet the new guys who came over the hill while Gog barricaded himself in the cave and sharpened extra flints.
A healthy . . .
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May 29, 2007 03:35 AM EDT --
How collective decision-making works well; how it goes wrong.
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
Anchor; Reprint edition (August 16, 2005), $14
ISBN: 0385721706
New Yorker business columnist James . . .
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May 03, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings . . .
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