Grapes of Wrath Revisited?

It was one of those days where I had to indulge my needs. In college I bought ridiculously unhealthy coffee drinks all the time because classes were so depressing I needed a pick-me-up. In fact, during one semester of college I had class in the library's basement, which conveniently sold Boston Stoker coffee. Thus, I got in the habit of buying a tall Cafe Mocha and a blueberry muffin every Tuesday/Thursday morning before my Religion and Film class.
Well, today I was tired and it was a rainy day, so I felt like revisiting my college days so I stopped at Starbucks after picking up the fire reports for my work. While waiting for my Cafe Mocha to be made, I glanced at the newspaper rack where the New York Times is sold. On the front cover of the paper was this photo:

The caption read: "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday that a homeless encampment in Sacramento would be moved."
Immediately my mind flashed to the Grapes of Wrath. Wasn't it that book where the people were living in the depression and they lived in these homeless camps in like tents and stuff in California? Crazy. It was weird how that entire book came back to me just from this photo. So I read the story online and apparently they call this area in Sacramento the "Wastelands" (which reminds me of T.S. Eliot, but that's just the English major in me) and all these news people (like Oprah) are giving the homeless press. And I guess the homeless will be moved to a better area. So that's good. It's just freaky, right? I think so often we think poverty is in other countries; you don't think it's so bad here in this country. But it is! This is exactly why I get so frustrated when Christian missionaries think they have to go overseas to serve when there's so much in this country we could do. *sigh*

That's So Shway

I love the Onion. You know that. But have you heard of CAP News? I haven't seen their website, I just follow their twitter and it's pretty funny. Their latest tweet is...
"Former President Bush announces plans to publish his memoir as a pop-up book.
http://tinyurl.com/cap032009".
Hilarious.