<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Current Affairs on Stormy Peters</title><link>https://stormyscorner.com/categories/current-affairs/</link><description>Recent content in Current Affairs on Stormy Peters</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:30:14 -0700</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://stormyscorner.com/categories/current-affairs/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>It's unacceptable to not know it all</title><link>https://stormyscorner.com/blog/its-unacceptable-to-not-know-it-all/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:30:14 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://stormyscorner.com/blog/its-unacceptable-to-not-know-it-all/</guid><description>&lt;p>It&amp;rsquo;s become unacceptable to not know it all. And in today&amp;rsquo;s world of information overload, that&amp;rsquo;s not ok. It&amp;rsquo;s not doable, so we are fooling ourselves.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I find myself silently thanking people who look confused when some famous person is named or some incident is mentioned or a meme is laughed at. Keeping track of all the current affairs is getting harder and harder and the looks when you don&amp;rsquo;t know what they are referencing are getting more and more incredulous.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>The Culture of Poverty</title><link>https://stormyscorner.com/blog/the-culture-of-poverty/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:06:15 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://stormyscorner.com/blog/the-culture-of-poverty/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;em>I am not an expert in poverty nor in economic culture. If there are any mistakes in this post, I likely understood it incorrectly. I hope that this post inspires you to go learn more about the social groups in our society and how we can all work more effectively together.&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://amzn.to/2b05xWN" rel="noopener">&lt;img src="https://stormyscorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bridgesoutofpoverty.jpg" alt="bridgesoutofpoverty" loading="lazy">&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://amzn.to/2b05xWN" rel="noopener">Bridges out of Poverty&lt;/a> taught by &lt;a href="https://jpfarr.com/about-jodi/" rel="noopener">Jodi Pfarr&lt;/a> was a fascinating class about how the cultures of individuals living in the middle class is different than individuals living in poverty.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>