{{{msbelle}}}

Okay, this is a more serious question. What is the best charity to donate to for polar bears? The jackass thing was fun to think about but way too transparent. But the polar bear thing - I really, really want to do something there, and the fact that I can do good for something that means a lot to me instead of buying some crap for someone I'm pissed at - yay. The "you fucking motherfucker" part will be totally between us!

At World Wildlife Fund, there are several animal options, including polar bear. You get a cheap stuffed animal of whichever animal you pick, plus a photo of one of them in the wild.

So, that snowball fight in DC yesterday? An off-duty cop's car got hit with snowballs, and he stopped the car, got out, and pulled his gun. [link] There's video of snowball fighters chanting, "You don't bring a gun to a snowball fight." Supposedly, Fox News referred to the snowball fight people as anti-war protesters.

The year my sister and I unknowingly exchanged goat donations she got me mine from oxfamunwrapped.com. They literally buy a goat with your money, whereas Heifer International uses animals to designate specific types of donations. So she thinks she made the cooler donation.

Perkins, I see you got a lot of cleaning done today...

I did, actually,

Doesn't mean I didn't take breaks.

Oh msbelle, I am so sorry. It was a rotten day in our house too, with Isaac throwing a full tantrum at the end there. But at least the tree is still up. I am sorry.

I do think your plan to let him buy his own presents in the future is a good one. I wish I could be right there for you.

And ita, I am sorry to hear about your cousin.

San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park has a polar bear conservation program too. You can also help out the animals at their facilities but, frankly, I support their outside efforts more. There are some very generous donations that help out with the animals there already.

I am doing the elephants for my dad. He can track the ones with GPS locator chipies online. I think he'll dig that. And Heifer Intl for a few people too.

Waitaminute, Heifer doesn't give actual goats. I mean, I don't know why I am so invested in it, but I want the actual goats going somewhere... Well, the bees. Because I like the idea that people are getting bees.

I've got to get my apartment shipshape for when my sister shows up. Coincidentally I've done a lot of updates to the sites over the past few days, but the apartment is looking better.

Looking at the site now, Cass, it does seem like you give a literal animal or share thereof, but for some reason the materials that my sister was sent when I donated in her name a few years ago made us both think they were being symbolic. We might have been wrong, or it might have changed.