give again

Having received my stimulus check, it’s time to do this again. Between now and the end of June, make a donation to either the Atlanta Community Food Bank or your own local food bank and I will match the donation. If you can’t donate money, but can donate food, I’ll match that as well. The two times I’ve issued this challenge before it was in December, a time of year when we have giving and charity on the mind anyway, but hunger knows no season. So however you do it, give as you can and then let me know what you gave either in a comment on this post or via email to donate at digital-guerrilla dot com.

To make things a bit easier, below are groups near where some of you live and you can find more at either the National Hunger Clearinghouse, Charity Navigator (which includes ratings based on a group’s financial reports), or the set list page of Bruce Springsteen’s site (just scroll down that page a bit and off to the right side are the groups he’s had at his concerts).

The Greater Boston Food Bank
http://www.gbfb.org
99 Atkinson Street
Boston, MA 02118
(617) 427-5200

Santa Barbara FoodBank
http://www.foodbanksbc.org
4554 Hollister Avenue
Santa Barbara, CA 93110
(805) 967-5741

Northeast Iowa Food Bank
http://www.northeastiowafoodbank.org
106 East 11th Street
Waterloo, IA 50703
(319) 235-0507

Community Food Bank of New Jersey
http://www.njfoodbank.org
31 Evans Terminal Road
Hillside, NJ 07205
(908) 355-3663

Greater Chicago Food Depository
http://www.chicagosfoodbank.org
4100 West Ann Lurie Place
Chicago, IL 60632
(773) 843-5424

and it’s funny too

I give you the results of a Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism survey of a year of The Daily Show, which state, shockingly to all of us I’m sure, that:

The program’s clearest focus is politics, especially in Washington. U.S. foreign affairs, largely dominated by the Bush Administration’s policies in Iraq, Washington politics and government accounted for nearly half (47%) of the time spent on the program. Overall, The Daily Show news agenda is quite close to those of cable news talk shows.

Some other very interesting results there which you may also find (not) so surprising. (via)

bush did something right

Figured that title would get more attention than pointing out that Sunday is National Tartan Day a.k.a. Forget Those Drunken Catholics, Let’s Celebrate an Ethnic Group to be Proud Off Day (I kid, I kid) (mostly). See back in 1998 the Senate declared April 6th to be National Tartan Day. The House followed up two years ago and today President Bush signed a similar proclamation, which is the first I’ve heard of it.

So why April 6th? Because that’s the day Scotland declared it’s independence from England, a whole 456 years before America.

Last month I said I’d celebrate St. Patrick’s Day when everyone else started celebrating St. Andrew’s Day, but I’m striking that now and replacing it with this day. So, who’s up for going out Sunday to celebrate Tartan Day and down some scotch?

…for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom � for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.

was it too obvious?

I kept telling myself that I should write down these thoughts, but then I’d remind myself of how obvious they are and surely someone would get around to pointing them out. Here we are a week later and it’s just now that I see someone point how if Pat Robertson had said what Reverend Wright said, it would have been a non-issue (note: that’s from the SuicideGirls newsfeed so the link may not be work safe).

excepting that thou then proceed to three

Yesterday I thanked the only two people I knew of at that time that had taken me up on my offer to match food bank donations in December. Turns out my ex-girlfriend made a donation as well, to the Santa Barbara FoodBank, so I’ve gone ahead and matched it and want to thank her as well.

If anyone else gave during the month of December and just forgot to mention it, let me know, either in a comment or via donate@digital-guerrilla.com. As I said though, you’ll get another chance to bankrupt me come the spring or summer.