That said, if you wanted to give, there are a ton of organizations other than the Red Cross, and many with really good track records of getting what's needed to those in need.
Amen. Once I balance my checkbook and figure out what I can budget to give, I'm thinking of donating to UNICEF. Even if my particular $ doesn't go immediately to disaster relief, I approve of the uses the organization puts it to in general in the affected area. (And so far as I know, they aren't run by people who superstitiously think I'm unclean and possessed of blood that can magically bypass screening tests to spread God's righteous wrathillness among the faithful.)
Once I balance my checkbook and figure out what I can budget to give, I'm thinking of donating to UNICEF. Even if my particular $ doesn't go immediately to disaster relief, I approve of the uses the organization puts it to in general in the affected area.
I feel the same way about Doctors Without Borders.
Should we worry about these conversations with the elevator, Hec?
It just tells me stuff. I don't talk back. That'd be crazy.
the elevator told me
I worked in a building that had those little TV screens in the elevators. Amazing how everyone immediately went from staring at the number display to the TV screen once it was installed.
I talked back to mine all the time, though.
Arthur C. Clarke [link] suggests some charities.
I came into work one morning, and they suddenly had TV screens installed in all the elevators.
Thankfully, now I can now have news stories delivered to me to fill up that interminable wait that it takes for the elevator to go from the lobby to the third floor.
I feel the same way about Doctors Without Borders.
Reportedly, the Australian branch asked people to stop donating to its Tsunami relief fund, because the donations were getting so overwhelming, they didn't want to run the risk of taking it and then not being able to get that much aid to the people. That's a good organization, right there.
It just tells me stuff. I don't talk back. That'd be crazy.
So, elevators are the opposite of god?
What with living in Sri Lanka, I'm glad to hear he's not recently so.
