http://www.timothylukehopkins.com Get your mixed perspective on. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:02:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not sure if this happens to everyone, but at the end of the year when the holidays approach -- Thanksgiving in particular -- I tend to step back and reassess what I am doing to positively affect the lives of those around me. We hear a lot of talk about how ... http://www.timothylukehopkins.com/2008/11/26/how-big-is-your-philanthropic-footprint/ Let's end poverty, folks! Blog Action Day 2008 is a day in which members of various online communities yap about a particular cause in order to raise awareness and effect change. This year's topic is poverty. Not sure if you know this, but... there is no insta-cure for poverty. Seriously. But as fellow ... http://www.timothylukehopkins.com/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-2008-end-poverty/ Look, my friends, at various points in last night’s town hall debate in Nashville, I felt fairly certain Senator John McCain would rear back and launch himself at Sen. Barack Obama. I am also fairly certain McCain was not referring to Obama in the roundabout 2,823,892 times he used the phrase ... http://www.timothylukehopkins.com/2008/10/08/let-us-talk-about-that-one-my-friends/ For all intensive purposes, Governor Sarah Palin hit the ball out of the park in last night's debate versus her Democratic counterpart, Senator Joe Biden. She was well-versed in her studied key words of "maverick," "reform," and "hockey mom." She managed to avoid diving too deep into any subject she was ... http://www.timothylukehopkins.com/2008/10/03/did-gov-palin-just-wink-at-me-joe-six-pack/ My thirst for well-balanced knowledge is endless. I am fairly certain yours is as well. This particular request from me to you, fine group of 3-4 readers, is that you share your bookmark of web links, Amazon wishlists, must-read essays, articles and political cartoons with with me. The 2008 presidential election is ... http://www.timothylukehopkins.com/2008/09/12/what-in-the-world-are-you-reading/ *This was written just during the Al Gore speech, but my internet went crazy just as Obama took the stage. Coincidence? Hmm... Just a bit of a round-up before the historic speech tonight from Senator Barack Obama in front of the Invesco Field crowd of 70,000 -- If Martin Luther King, Jr. ... http://www.timothylukehopkins.com/2008/08/28/a-dnc-round-up-before-the-main-event/ No need to follow every second of the Democratic National Convention stuck in front of the television. Thanks to modern technology, each speech given on the DNCC floor can be accessed on-demand from a high-definition feed using your computer. Both the picture and sound qualities are superb. The DNCC site streams the ... http://www.timothylukehopkins.com/2008/08/27/watch-the-dncc-at-your-own-pace/ Last night, in front of the Democratic National Convention and television audiences, Michelle Obama gave the best speech of the presidential campaign. Along the way, Michelle did a wonderful job at eloquently telling her own great American dream story, the story of how she and Obama came to meet, and how ... http://www.timothylukehopkins.com/2008/08/26/obamas-excellent-choice-of-a-would-be-first-lady/ http://www.timothylukehopkins.com/2008/07/24/gnarls-barkleys-whos-gonna-save-my-soul-video/ Do not direct your anger at the messengers, who many think are in charge in Iraq because they are given the impossible task of articulating the progress -- or lack thereof -- of the war in Iraq. Granted, General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker are calling many shots ... http://www.timothylukehopkins.com/2008/04/11/longing-for-a-prolonged-war-to-end/