Archive for September, 2011

  • A friend of mine, I’ll call her Betty, had a very unpleasant experience with a customer service representative at a local discount department store. After waiting in a long line...

    Blame the Poor Part 2

    Posted on September 7, 2011 | No Comments
    A friend of mine, I’ll call her Betty, had a very unpleasant experience with a customer service representative at a local discount department store. After waiting in a long line...

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  • It doesn’t take long to notice the increasingly negative rhetoric against the poor in the last couple of years. Even as people are losing their jobs and homes all around...

    Blame the Poor?

    Posted on September 5, 2011 | No Comments
    It doesn’t take long to notice the increasingly negative rhetoric against the poor in the last couple of years. Even as people are losing their jobs and homes all around...

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  • Yesterday I walked into the Citizens Against Domestic Violence office and saw a few boxes of blueberries, an unidentified melon and about 1000 over-ripe bananas. That’s a lot of bananas....

    The 1000 Banana Dilemma – Genuine Charity?

    Posted on September 2, 2011 | No Comments
    Yesterday I walked into the Citizens Against Domestic Violence office and saw a few boxes of blueberries, an unidentified melon and about 1000 over-ripe bananas. That’s a lot of bananas....

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