I’m sitting at my desk eating a free lunch and trying to catch up on the news from an international food summit currently taking place in Rome. It is being sponsored by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
Pope Benedict told delegates that hunger and malnutrition are, “unacceptable in a world where resources and knowledge” can [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 7, 2008
No Free Lunch
June 5, 2008
RIP RFK
From the Baltimore Sun:
Like many Latinos in Los Angeles in 1968, 17-year-old Juan Romero, a busboy at the Ambassador Hotel, admired Robert F. Kennedy. The night before the California primary, he had had delivered room service to Kennedy’s hotel suite, and had shaken the candidate’s hand.
“He shook my hand as hard as anyone had ever [...]
