Students from the University of Rochester silently protested an Economics Professor for defending Rush Limbaugh … right in the middle of his lecture.
Ironic note: One of the professor’s books? “More Sex Is Safer Sex”
Unrelated note: This is also your tumblr’s alma mater!
This mother and child—and this part of Mogadishu—show the toll of the overlapping political, security, and public health crises in Somalia, which have put an immense burden on women and children.
Years marked by conflict, drought, and a profound lack of governance culminated in a massive humanitarian crisis in the second half of 2011, to which MSF responded by expanding its programs in Somalia and for the huge numbers of Somali refugees who sought aid in Kenya and Ethiopia.
Photo: Somalia © Lynsey Addario/VII
This is really simple. I do not know why it has taken me long to figure this out:
I am in the corner with doubt
Watch me do good
Eyedea told me this’ whenever you have not been moved its really hard to move on’
I want to do so much and I am overwhelmed by the complexity and intricacy of African related issues, but I can only begin to do my little part if I start with my family then move on to the community, after the village, finally the country. At 70 the motherland. The wise men in the villages know, the liberal art college professors whisper, my mother hopes, your gardener and that artist you always talk about are all quietly guiding me—-I am learning fast and I have accepted that I am never the best at anything, but I will give it my all to get it right the second or third time. Maybe even the 5th. Someday we will have no starving kids. When that happens I will call you and we will drink tea and talk about how we did it. I’m an idealist, so what?!
In honor of National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Together we can see modern day slavery abolished.
quote source: Steve Jobs
image source: Invisible Children
Chris Rock: Never Scared airs tonight as part of Stand-Up Month along with specials from Chelsea Peretti, Arj Barker and Ralphie May.
