The world's poor indeed want to have fun and perhaps they want to have fun more than they want indoor plumbing, especially if the latter is hard to imagine. In any case, I agree with the op-ed that the spread of the internet to the...
poverty
Poverty is very expensive. Because of the flat rates for most goods and services (personally, I've long thought that we should all have a card where our gross yearly income.
I hesitate to link to this; take care, because it's a genuinely horrible story of the death of a small child. Newspapers acquire, justified or not, reputations for certain kinds.
This month's Sidney Award went to Jina Moore for her excellent article on poverty in modern America. Asking what is poverty, Moore notes that no one can agree on it. But a really good definition of poverty is lack of access to a healthy variety...
In the hipster world, California's Coachella Valley is known for strange creatures such as Animal Collective and Deer Tick that appear once a year to gigantic crowds of bearded men,.
This is a little story about a top high school football recruit whose life seems to be falling apart for all too common reasons. Of course you can multiply this.
An outstanding article about the compounding economic obstacles faced by those living in poverty. (This is something Eherenreich's book is very good on as well.) [Via Really Big Media Ezra.]