If our reporters and policy-makers can’t get the details of poverty right, how can any of them possibly create good policy for dealing with the problems of poverty?
Monthly Archive: September 2011
Sep 26 2011
A Perfect Birthday Gift
It’s been a long, busy weekend visiting friends. I held a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet in my hand and touched 600-year-old vellum. I also got one of the best birthday presents of my life. Congratulations on lapping the sun once more. Though I’m sure you didn’t put any direct effort into it, you’ve managed to make …
Sep 24 2011
Saturday Storytime: Godmother Death
Sometimes the joy of story is in the telling. Even a well-known story with the characters and endings unchanged can take on new life in the hands of a poet like Jane Yolen. She was visible that day. Sometimes she plays at being mortal. It amuses her. She wore her long gown kirtled above her …
Sep 22 2011
MRA Says, “Yep, We’re Domestic Abusers”
If we really leave, he’s telling us, we will die. And we will have made it happen. They can’t help it, you know. We’re so good at making them crazy.
Sep 22 2011
Magic Courtesy of Dave McKean
Maybe the best reason for an adult to pick up Dawkins’ The Magic of Reality.
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