May 16, 2011
A joke about starving kids in Africa, really?? Yes, see comedian Dwayne Perkins discuss how his eating habits were developed & how we “help” those starving children. Thanks for this clip, Dwayne! (Dwayne’s website is at: http://www.dwayneperkins.com/ ) **For an article on hunger that SHOULD be on the front page of your newspaper today, but [...]
We’ve gotten used to the world not working for 100 percent of humanity and we need comedians to help remind us of the absurdity of that. While a fan of slapstick comedy, the type you’ll find here mostly is that which means more, that which touches upon the pressing problems of humanity, what Comedy should be, the best it can be.
May 15, 2011
“[T]here is more than enough water to go around and meet all of humanity’s needs.” -Page 13 of the United Nation’s Human Development Report 2006, Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis at http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr06-complete.pdf “The world has the technology, the finance and the human capacity to remove the blight of water insecurity from millions [...]
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