Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt

Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt

Okay, I know that this is a blog devoted to disability issues...but given the intimate connection between disability and poverty I couldn't resist posting a link to this story. Why is it that we can spend 500 billion dollars or more per year on a war that the majority of the populace does not support...but can't address simple issues like getting people food? Now, I know that famine and hunger are not issues that are immediately resolvable through monetary aid...but it would seem to me that even 1% of the annual war budget could temporarily remedy...if not go a long way to resolving issues of hunger like this example in Haiti.

My Annual Year End Music Revue

Just like the mix notes say, this is my choice for the songs that defined 2007 for me. Not all of these are new songs, and some of them are quite old, but they are all pretty evocative of the past year and where we've been and, perhaps, where we're going