Sunday Roundup

This week, I spent a fascinating couple of days at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford. I wish everyone could have been there: It was exhilarating -- and deeply moving -- to hear example after example of social entrepreneurs making quantifiable improvements in lives all around the world. As Stephan Chambers, chairman of the Skoll Centre, put it: "I have cried every day this week. Remember as I tell you this, that I'm male. And British. And from Oxford." I actually cried every hour. But, remember, I'm female. And Greek. And from Cambridge. I also cried when Roy Sekoff, our founding editor, texted me that his father, Arthur, had passed away. Besides being a huge supporter of HuffPost (which he rightly felt contained some of his funny, feisty, passionate DNA), he was an eagle-eyed evaluator of my hair whenever I appeared on TV -- good or bad, he let me know about it. He was a real character, in the best sense -- a warm, witty, and exceedingly generous man. Read more about him here. He will be missed.

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[Citizen54]

02:48 PM on 04/01/2012

It just doesn't seem like Sunday without the Jason Linkins column.

[Neil Tall Eagle]

02:44 PM on 04/01/2012

Thank you, Arianna. I believe that crying will save the world...!

[darcy]

02:37 PM on 04/01/2012

Very sorry about Arthur Sekoff.

Hugs, darcy

[ntmessage]

12:02 PM on 04/01/2012

Here, there was something with the Supreme Court; still no Budget; dueling loophole bills - one an investment credit used by all businesses became the energy loophole (gothca!), and another eliminated all loopholes, but no more revenue (gothca!). We got the ceremonial “fair share” stuff and the formal unveiling of the “man behind the curtain”. The Insurance Industry.
We have replaced Health Care in our country with a Financial Derivative called Insurance. These financial instruments are in plain sight and like any slow growing cancer; and stage four is not the time for treatment. We are like the liver cancer patient that still smokes, or a country using more financial institution wizardry to Band-Aid structural issues. We are in a bad place.
These speculators are like drooling wolves disguised as actuaries and they are selling us a balloon mortgage in the tens of trillions of dollars. They are biggest supporters of Obama Care yet against fixing entitlement costs. Why? Because the bigger the casino, the more money they will take.
And it comes right out a seniors Social Security check, a painless pick of the pocket. An advantage the Insurance companies are all over. United Health Care and their AARP marketing arm finance the scare debate annually. More tax gives more money to these thieves. What side are you on?
Every “Fail” to fix Social Security, Health Care or Medicare, within our means, the more our seniors are exposed to these wolves. Count on it. They are. Buffet “Rules”?

[HURRICANEPAUL]

04:22 AM on 04/01/2012

A total of 14 people were shot which makes it one of the worst mass shootings in the history of South Florida.

[Steven G. Brant]

01:00 AM on 04/01/2012

Thank you, Arianna. I believe social entrepreneurship will save the world... especially since we progressives now know that politics (especially but not exclusively here in the USA) is incapable of making anything of real consequence happen except taking a country to war.

I suspect many of the people you were just with feel the same... that - while "we the people" are saddled with the legacy political institutions that surround us - those institutions are no longer where real progress (the kind that brings us together as one human family rather than seeking to divide us) will happen.

While we will vote for President Obama, we will be applying ten times more energy into building the new institutions needed to get humanity out of this unholy mess in which it is currently stuck.