When I was enduring a major crisis that shattered my world, fiction and historical works saved my sanity. It got me out of my situation and allowed me to focus elsewhere/gain some perspective. I’m quite horrible about ‘allowing’ myself to read fiction as there are many other works that seem more pressing to my…

The Dude revived Liberation theology with it’s Anti-Colonialism and fierce critique of Capitalism and defense of workers, peasants, farmers, indigenous people as the first Latin American Pope, got Obama to end 50 years of a stupid embargo on Cuba, and in his Encyclical on Climate Change calls for a social and cultural…

I’m still stuck on why the nation has “too much cheese.” How could we possibly have too much cheese? We put that shit on EVERYTHING!

Well fortunately I managed to rise above my meager upbringings to the point where I would not be eligible for government cheese. But it is also fortunate that I now make enough money that I could pay a tidy premium for someone else’s government cheese.

I used to work at a day shelter for homeless people. Gov’t commodity delivery days were the best..mostly powdered milk, canned fruits/veggies, canned tuna, etc.. But it was food we could use to cook 3 meals a day AND stock our meager food pantry, without having to buy it at the foodbank.
But the few times we got…

Thanks, Bobby, now this will definitely be me tonight:

I am a relatively recent grad of a doctoral program in social work, and this article touches on so many things that I found demoralizing about my experiences in the social justice / poverty / education research and academic sphere.

Oooh this is a good time to quote my own dissertation, the theory of which partially hinges on the concept of resilience (and by the way, as someone in academia who has worked with nonprofits and currently works in partnership with nonprofits, and will probably work for a nonprofit again because academia sucks, I am…