Google Adsense makes third-world webmasters wealthy

The revenues from Adsense ads are so high by third-world standards that some people are living entirely off of this money.

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Warner Books, Seven Stories Press and Beacon Press have come together to establish the Octavia Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund Full Story

Cause & Affect 3.331: Raising support and awareness for the Orphan Trust Project in Zambia, Africa.

World Health Organization on Zambia.

Deborah Tannen, author of the New York Times bestseller (for over 3 years) You Just Don't Understand, will speak at Emory University, Tuesday, March 21 @ 4:30pm (480 Kilgo Circle, White Hall, Room 208). Afterwards, she will sign copies of her current bestseller: You're Wearing THAT?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation.

Modern day "Robin Hood"? -- Granny's got a gun! She's robbing the "rich" to feed those who are starving to death.

There's always a Lily of the Valley but don't you forget about the Bright Morning Star! Preparing to revise Delilah's Fruit.

Snake oil salesman, James Frey

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People are more concerned with proving Oprah was duped (was wrong) and gloating, almost celebrating over it rather than being outraged and annoyed that James Frey and his publishers sold snake oil as the new "make it all better" ointment (so to speak). Reminds me of the book Beloved, the portion which describes a celebration of sorts, when the neighborhood folks are invited to Baby Sugg's to eat good food, drink, dance and enjoy themselves. The following day, those neighborhood folks, awakened to outrage and jealousy over what they consider an overabundance of blessings bestowed upon Baby Sugg's (even though she is willing to share). There are jealous hateful people who despise Oprah's success and philanthropy and this Frey mess seems to have given them cause and ammunition for strange inappropriate glee.

Oprah tells Frey He 'Betrayed Readers' ---- Yahoo News I knew she'd eventually ask him to return to the show and explain himself . . .

The Son of Man -> Jesus is black! Sundance Film Festival

Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin . . . husssshhhhhh. You and others who believe God is angry and using nature to harm folks for their bad behavior, your backwards way of thinking is pitiful. Please stop it! IF God is indeed angry and using nature to get attention its because we haven't been good shepherds of the Earth, we've abused and continue to abuse this planet in various ways. If God was angry about man's behavior he'd not only use nature to destroy New Orleans, surely he'd have wreaked havoc on NY, LA, Miami, Atl, just to name a few. And why start now? Why not start destroying "America" after it was invaded and the Native American's were treated atrociously . . . or during slavery . . . Jim Crow . . .

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To do list? Working on the Valentine's Day section of my online t-shirt store. Check!

Taylor Branch's final volume of the biography of Martin Luther King - At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68. Read an except of the book at MSNBC.com.

Vol I - Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63
Vol II - Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65