Yeah, my dumbass decided to turn 4 hours of experiments into 6. So that means I’ve had an extra 2 hours to kill tonight. Having read all the usual blogs, news sites, online magazines, etc., I went to Poot’s blog and started clicking the little “next blog” button at the top. Most of the “next blogs” were uninteresting to me, but I present 3 that caught my eye.
This is the new buzzword people. Poverty tourism is the breakthrough concept that is going to make the Indian Tourism industry really boom! Remember Munna Bhai (Pooor People, Reeeeel People)?
There is an article about it here.
Though the phrase sounds somewhat derogatory, the general attitude of whoever writes about this issue seems to be politically correct, but I think its just to avoid flaming.
I think Poverty Tourism, in the long run, will make the so called first-worlders more sensitive to international poverty and will force a rethink on poverty in their home country.
I wasn’t interested enough to read the article, but I think the idea will have a horrible long-term effect. Making poverty profitable will not end poverty. Although I think in the short term it is good for countries to try to develop business in the hopes they can work their way out of poverty.
Holistic Healing Schools. It’s Time to Start Thinking about Mother’s Day.
What is a Holistic Healing School? Holistic healing schools educate potential healers in alternative mind, body health care programs like aromatherapy, astrology, Feng Shui, hypnosis, meditation, natural and energy healing, new age, spiritualism, yoga, massage therapy, and so much more. Holistic healing schools teach natural ways of alleviating pain and even homeopathic ways to cure our ills.
It never crossed my mind before, but how many effing alternatives do you need? To be naturally healthy do I have to smell the right things, read the daily Zodiac reports, arrange my furniture correctly, snap myself unconscious, etc., etc? To have to invest in so many crazy schemes to be healthy seems to imply that none of them work very well (if at all). I guess I’ll have to call up Miss Information and see if I can get straightened out.
Finally:
Unique Idea that wiil change our world for the better ~~~”THE AMERICAN DREAM HOUSING LOTTERY”~~As American’s (sic) we need to let our elected officials know we will support the American Dream Housing Lottery: CALL the White House 1-202-456-1111 or contact your local politicians and tell them you want to be EMPOWERED!
So that was the blog description, here’s the first paragraph of the first post I ran across:
What if we (AMERICA) could build an economic engine that would greatly reduce poverty, create millions of jobs, pay the deficits of local, state and federal governments, reduce homelessness, reduce the number of illegal imigrants that are coming to our country,increase home ownership, increase small business, increase manufacturing and inject debt free capital assets into the economy all with a voluntary tax?
What. the. fuck? The post kind of goes on and on about fixing the world, without clearly defining how. Even after looking at more posts, the only thing I can definitely say is that they are pushing a federal housing lottery. I felt like I was watching a late night infomercial. “Do you want an iron that will instantly unwrinkle your clothes, steam your broccoli, and mighty your penis all while saving you money? Of course you do. And for just 5 low, low payme….” You get the idea.
So, I have finally wasted enough time. Back to the lab I go.
