maoquai | Patricia (Tish) J. Lopez

27 Nov Inequality and things

Posted at 16:33h in Care Ethics, Eduardo Galeano, inequality, The Spirit Level, Victoria Lawson by maoquai 0 Comments

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Yesterday, a friend posted a small blog post in the Economist about the correlation between wealth and happiness (and the difference a log makes) to which he added this comment:Mean happiness of a nation apparently correlates well with the Log of it's GDP...

26 Nov Accumulation by Dispossession, or Black Friday

Posted at 19:02h in Accumulation by Dispossession, Holidays, Marx by maoquai 0 Comments

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I spared everyone my annual Thanksgiving-is-a-Celebration-of-Genocide Annual Diatribe this year. Am i getting old? or just more cautious? I recognize that thanksgiving has become a Family Holiday, but posting on Facebook about the things one is thankful for does not a Thanks-giving make. Nor does...

24 Nov William Easterly visits celebrity-dom and causes

Posted at 17:33h in AidWatch, Ananya Roy, William Easterly by maoquai 0 Comments

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I follow the AidWatch blog with some infrequency. It often depends on how brave i am in the morning when i check my RSS feeds and iGoogle gadgets. But today's post by William Easterly, Lennon vs. Bono, got me thinking (in a positive way, not...

21 Nov The UN and other scary institutions in Haiti

Posted at 20:01h in cholera, Haiti, U.N. by maoquai 0 Comments

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For a colleague's birthday, three of us went out for a lady's day. It consisted of relaxing - something we're not used to doing. In fact, at one point, one of us said, "I feel like i'm moving in slow motion." I laughed because, in...

17 Nov TB Concerns

Posted at 15:53h in GHESIKO, Haiti, TB by maoquai 0 Comments

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TB hasn't been in the news much with regard to Haiti. Yet, according to the USAID, Haiti has the highest burden of TB (not prevalence - hrm, data?) and TB is the second cause of death by infectious disease in youth and adults - second after...