FROM A FORMER STUDENT, STEPHEN JOHNS, WHO FEELS ABOUT HALBERSTAM THE WAY I DO. WE’VE LOST A GIANT TODAY, A MAN WHOSE REACH WAS AS LONG AND BROAD AS ANY JOURNALIST I HAVE READ. THERE WILL BE MANY MORE COMMENTS TO COME; HERE, SUFFICE IT TO SAY, EVERY BOOK HALBERSTAM WROTE HELPED […]
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THE THEME HERE IS ABUNDANCE, CORNUCOPIA, WHATEVER WE WANT TO CALL THE CONSUMER SOCIETY IN WHICH WE LIVE…..
IT IS NOT THE ONLY WAY PEOPLE LIVE…..
PONDER THE FOLLOWING ON GOOD FRIDAY, 2007
Being Poor
by John Scalzi on his blog “Whatever”, written in response to the Hurricane
Katrina tragedy and its victims September 03, 2005
http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/003704.html
Being poor is knowing exactly […]