Fair Trade?

I subscribe to the "This American Life" podcast. This week there was a great segment on fair trade. They tell the story of Cambodia, who is trying to do the right things and treat their workers well, but are being beaten by countries that are not keeping the same worker standards. Click here.

Note that this originally aired in 2005

Subverting Christmas

Heres a great story about someone who got a ransom note instead of an ipod. Click

Christmas Spending

Well its two days untill christmas and I finally finished all my christmas shopping.
After looking at the final tally I am a little supprised. I thought that I was being responsible and limiting my spending, but I ended up spening more than I thought I was going to. No where near the $1,000.00 the average American will spend but rather high for me.

I guess that I didn't pay attention to the message of the movie I saw last week; "What Would Jesus Buy?"

Contentment

I have had a holiday lunch at work and gotten a Christmas bonus. I am officially sedated by the corporate machine.

Priorities

Thank God that John Kerry has his priorities in order. I would hate to miss another Pat's game.

"...Too many American football fans are being held hostage,"

Supply Side Jesus

Ahmadineblog?

Who knew that Iran's president had a blog?

I hope that I'm not on a government watch list now that I have seen it.