Well, I suppose a single email doesn't accomplish much. I just got this in my inbox from the greatergood people who do the whole click to feed the hungry, vaccinate kids, etc. It's a coupon for me if I buy at their store plus ( Read more... )

So, I've been doing a little research, since I found out I bought products from a company that in 2009 (the time of the article I read) had an employee who was making an average wage of 11 cents an hour, legally, in the US. This is disturbing.

This article seems reasonably balanced about the issue of paying disabled employees below minimum wage ( Read more... )

So, being a touch bored, I was wandering through various web sites, when I discovered something that a very small percentage of the people reading this are going to think is awesome. Note, summer_jackel especially needs to read this ( Read more... )

So there's a game I play where you grow virtual plants, and it's nice in that for every virtual plant you harvest it contributes a small amount to the Adopt an Acre program to help the actual environment (they sum up how much has been done each month and make a monthly donation, it's not like they cut a check every time a single garden harvests a ( Read more... )

Why do people of the Abrahamic religions keep talking about dead people turning into angels? I can find nowhere in the Torah and nowhere in the Bible that suggests such a thing. It goes directly against numerous passages in both. It is directly against the Revelation of Saint John. As best as I can determine, the notion is pretty much blasphemy. ( Read more... )

I got a response (two actually). My email is being forwarded to the correct people and I am the only person who wrote in on the issue. But they don't think they are working with Autism Speaks and the only autism group they work with is The Autism Treatment Network. So, this may just be a really prominent ad they are running that looks like they are ( Read more... )

Apparently it's ME/CFS awareness time, as decreed by someone. I think you're probably all reasonably aware though. Here's some info I've read about it over a period of years, but I'm too lazy to drag up links ( Read more... )

So visiting some click to give charities today, why does the child health site have to be linking to a promotion where you share your story of "what my child with autism has taught me" and for each story they will donate $1 to Autism Speaks, up to $1000. For those who do not know, Autism Speaks is a "charity" that tends to harm people with autism ( Read more... )

I have a great-niece. Her name is Alexis. Both mother and child are alright. She was born earlier today (finally).

I really liked several of the comments and points people raised, and I am trying to let that kind of mush around in my brain. I'm hoping it will eventually lead to a more refined position, and a better way of stating my position. But I wanted to make a related point, that I hadn't made in the previous post ( Read more... )