vanessamason
around the world and in the neighborhood
Friday, September 05, 2008 today
Visual summary of #DNC and #RNC: http://is.gd/2eN8
In their mean-spirited mocking of Obama's community organizing, the GOP was mocking the efforts of an important group: the Catholic Church. Obama's community work was part of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the church's main anti-poverty and social justice program in America since 1969.
@kinsington In a heartbeat! I miss you and DC. Sucks that I need a job. Maybe I can find a sugar daddy?
@maxgladwell Republicans? Truth? Those usually don't occur in the same sentence
Jon Stewart at his absolute best running circles around cable news douchebags.
Thursday, September 04, 2008 yesterday
@HumanFolly Looks like you are kind of a big deal :)
A small confession: Hello. My name is Vanessa and I am an addict to community service. It started so.. http://tinyurl.com/5ln7nf
@batterista population yes in reference to the scale of her governing experience. cultural asterisks no.
@alexashrugged both john and cindy mccain have said it. Negotiation w/ Canada counts but she doesn't seem to have any idea about conflicts
@batterista I haven't seen articles re. that. palin's experience is slim. http://is.gd/2doR
@alexashrugged how is that any less justifiable than foreign policy experience via your physical location?
@batterista but the dems are attacking just her. she ridiculed an entire group of people.
@batterista I'm still trying to figure out when community organizing became something to ridicule.
RT @HumanFolly: Palin tried to get her town's library to ban certain books. Palin threatened to fire the librarian. http://is.gd/28YS
From October through November 2008, Alex Steed will travel to over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 2 days ago
idealist talks about innovation in hiv prevention: http://is.gd/2bKG
@sondernagle It was in the Argentine newspaper. It was a bit of a challenge to explain that one. They thought it was hilarious.
Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular rallying points for those trying to improve the world. These two notions are positive ones, but neither is adequate when it comes to understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations. The authors make the case that social innovation is a better vehicle for doing this. They also explain why most of today’s innovative social solutions cut across the traditional boundaries separating nonprofits, government, and for-profit businesses.
@osocio I think they should. They should at least have some sort of dissenting opinion in those networks. Now they are just echo chambers.
UHC Series: The Inevitability Argument: It would be nice if we could wave a bureaucratic magic wand .. http://tinyurl.com/6lcfy7
The Daily Show episodes here are about a week behind. currently appalled at ignorant clinton or else supporters all over again
@maxgladwell there's a tautology if you have ever heard one
@HumanFolly I love that scene. It's amazing to think that something like a woman writing was so controversial
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 3 days ago
@tmonhollon that's the best endorsement for yoga i have head
@schartkoff It's clunky and not intuitive. I'm not a fan either.
you have to wonder what is wrong when you ask for music like rilo kiley in #last.fm and get young jeezy
@bloodandmilk I am and hating her mother that much more for putting her through this in front of the world
Monday, September 01, 2008 4 days ago
Might have been influence by the Palin pregnancy announcement: http://is.gd/27Ri
@cheeky_geeky there's a picture you don't want associated with food
@luckywhitegirl and even worse she has to do it all in the public eye
Public health research and practice have been guided by a cognitive, rational paradigm where inputs produce linear, predictable changes in outputs. However, the conceptual and statistical assumptions underlying this paradigm may be flawed. In particular, this perspective does not adequately account for nonlinear and quantum influences on human behavior. We propose that health behavior change is better understood through the lens of chaos theory and complex adaptive systems.
@Katrinskaya That's what happens when you are anti-birthcontrol as well
RT @rosettathurman: C-SPAN has new poverty data. Which candidate will fix it? Think. Then Vote. http://www.spotlightonpover...
Blog Day 2008: Today is Blog Day, a day for bloggers to highlight some new and interesting blogs tha.. http://tinyurl.com/557uon
I look forward to the day when the world can find a way to eliminate the “social gradient of health.”