ithinkyoushould. Resist this kind of NONSENSE! Oh boy.  I want to post this under the heading WTF?! But I’m grappling hard with its association with Haiti. This is what I believe Naomi Klein refers to as a “disaster capitalist” opportunity: Rihanna singing Bob Marley’s Redemption Song, rather BADLY I might add. And then Oprah comes back and says it was “beautiful!” [I think she was inferring that Rihanna looked beautiful, cuz YES, not only did she look "beautiful," she looked gorgeous! But the singing was all kinds of awful. If she was on American Idol, she would be told to.... [ Read More ]

ithinkyoushould. Carefully consider this position. The title of a Newsweek.com article/interview reads: “Exploitation Nation: Naomi Klein worries Haitians won’t have a role in shaping their future.” It was written on January 21, 2010 by  Katie Paul, a Newsweek correspondent. I only happened on this article moments after I installed the previous entry, but I have to say that since the devastating earthquake in Haiti I’ve been thinking the same thing. Something along these lines has been gnawing at my core, and I haven’t found the words[!] to express it without sounding like a wacko. Yes, the collective rallying cry is…. [ Read More ]

ithinkyoushould. Learn to Grieve Appropriately. Some of us have had the experience of loss and despair where many have not. Some of us have been thrust into situations involving extreme crises and violence, where others have not. And some of us have had to confront daily hardship and heartache, where others have not. The point it not to compare stressful situations, but to figure out how best to cope. When Haiti was struck with a devastating earthquake that registered 7 on the Richter Scale, it was the blast that was heard around the world. A day or two after it…. [ Read More ]