Children For Sale

$1.25 a pound. Less than that if a neighbor can’t afford it. George’s
house was in complete disrepair. Shutters were broken and out of place
bricks sat stranded on the front porch. His house was in huge need of
about $20,000 of work including a new paint job. Or is it a need? Maybe
they see the true need, and that is to love their neighbor as
themselves. To refuse a new house uplift because there are those who
can’t pay $1.25 a pound for tomatoes. –Daniel

I’m all for fair wages and unionizing and what not, but I could care less about the writer’s strike.

…he said something like, “Hillary’s the only woman I would vote for.”  And he said it like it was a compliment, a concession of goodwill!  As if being a woman were some kind of handicap that he couldn’t support except in the most spectacular and generous cases. (read the rest of Karma’s writing)

White hipsters often use their interest in Black culture to claim moral high ground, while giving nothing back.” -Hip: The History, John Leland [via]

The Nick and Josh Podcast starring none other then Me.

Some nice ways to Recycle Your Socks

I’ll take Jesus any day

there’s a time for peace and there is a time for war
a time to forgive and a time to settle the score
a time for babies to lose their lives
a time for hunger and genocide
this too shall be made right

–This Too Shall Be Made Right, Derek Webb, the Ringing Bell

“(There is a) basic philosophical problem when you begin turning over
administration of prisons to people who have an interest in keeping
people locked up” notes Jenni Gainsborough of the ACLU’s National
Prison Project. -in America’s Private Gulag [via]