SHOULD I DONATE MONEY TO KONY 2012 OR NOT?
So you probably woke up this morning to discover that something called Kony 2012 had taken over the internet. In case you haven’t worked it out yet, Kony 2012 is a film produced by the charity Invisible Children, raising awareness about the child soldiers of Uganda.
And that’s good, right? Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army abduct children and convert them into murderers. They’ve been doing it for years and it’s good that someone’s trying to raise Kony’s profile so that American politicians might be forced into doing something about this endless tragedy, right?
Well, it’s more complex than that.
Read the full article here
Worthwhile reading if you are thinking of donating to this cause..
Mind Thoughts… with Michael Ian Black
Is it too soon? I’m never sure how much time I have to wait before weighing in on whatever celebrity kicked it during the night. Yesterday was Andrew Breitbart. Wednesday, Davy Jones. Before that, of course, was Whitney Houston, a singer nobody spent much time discussing over the last decade except to talk about what a colossal fuck-up she was. Then she dies and suddenly CNN is wall-to-wall Whitney? Piers Morgan, scumbag editor of London phone-hacking tabloids, is asking Chaka Khan if she thinks pressure from the media is to blame? Please. If revenge is a dish best served cold, phony hypocritical piety is a dish best served on a heaping plate of shut the fuck up.
Couldn’t agree more
6od:
I’ve repeatedly said that for people who have as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. We are actors. We make pictures and that’s about all we have in common. Maybe that’s enough. Wives shouldn’t feel obligated to accompany their husbands to a ball game, husbands do look a bit silly attending morning coffee breaks with the neighborhood wives when most men are out at work. Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other … You can’t spend a lifetime breathing down each other’s necks … We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger. —Paul Newman
and there you have it.
I’m trying a new diet where my primary sources of sustenance are Fiber One bars and tears. It doesn’t matter because in like 2 days I’ll be shoving dry Cinnamon Toast Crunch into my maw by the fistful again anyway, I’m sure, but I just wanted to let you know that if you eat two Fiber One bars in one day, your intestines rebel and upheave any control you previously assumed you had over your body.
