Improving Society – Page 9

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Back in 2009, Liz H pointed to an essay that I liked: “Oppression,” by Marilyn Frye, from Frye's 1983 book...

Sometimes around this time of year, we need a little hope to carry us through to brighter days. Here are...

In the version of “Talking Union” that's on Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits, Seeger explains the origin of the song. I...

Here are the organizations I'm donating to in 2010. (I had this all set to post a week or two...

I've seen surprisingly little in the news about the floods in Pakistan. Granted, I've been mostly not reading the news...

Back in January, my finances were not in good enough shape to donate to the Haiti earthquake relief efforts. There...

A few weeks ago, I got a bunch of calls on my land line whose caller ID identified them as...

I forget who linked to this recently: a clip of Conan O'Brien talking to Louis C.K., in which LCK points...

I've been thinking for a long time about some stuff I want to write about trying to be a good...

An AP article suggests that many small US nonprofits that make under $25,000 a year could (at least temporarily) lose...

I read through all of the awesome women proclaiming their awesomeness thread yesterday (having previously only looked at a couple...

Karen H posted a great entry recently in which she invited women to post about their awesomeness. She writes: Too...