Lisbon Thanks to the horrors of modern technology even on your vacation you can both get inquiries about what in the world is happening with the near riots at the New Orleans City Council where demonstrators were getting tasered and darned if you can’t read all about it, hour by hour, in your local …
Month: December 2007
Laughter Every Day in the Terrible Streets
Lisbon A little something for the freedom fighters out there! A BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSEby Jack Gilbert Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babiesare not starving someplace, they are starvingsomewhere else. With flies in their nostrils. But we enjoy our lives because that’s what God wants.Otherwise the mornings before summer dawn would notbe made so fine. …
Embedded Giving
Lisbon ‘Tis the season and everywhere we find the opportunity to buy, buy, buy and in some cases supposedly have some of those purchases make contributions to good causes along the way. Over the last 15-20 years this “embedded giving,” has seemed ubiquitous, but in a bah-humbug moment, Stephanie Strom of the New York …