ice bucket challenge???
 

a valuable cause, another lazy, misguided and narcissistic movement in armchair activism, or harmless fun that at it's worst gets people cold and at it's best sends some money towards ALS research.

I side with the third option. how about you? if you were nominated, would you do one?

don't know what you're talking about but i'll venture that "narcissistic" seems the correct assessment of anything done in public view.

they want to stomp ALS?

al pacino, al bundy and al sharpton must be pissed

anyway, narcissism is still the right answer. yes?

rich fucks spend $500,000 to throw gala events that end up raising $8,000 for some local charity. crock OF SHIT.

there is no self-aggrandizing or congratulatory pats on the back if the rich fucks just give $500,000 directly to a charity.

Many celebs and rich people donate tons of money and time without the publicity whore aspect. wish they all did.

and i still don't know what the fuck ALS is and i won't know about it until someone tells me because i refuse to accept the presumption that i should know this shit acronym or should have to google for it. that's right. i'm not googling it. no way.

Lou Gherig's disease

5% A, 80% B, an 15%C

but wouldn't that be LGD???

i'm confused!!

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed

thanks rob. and now i feel like a fucking asshole!

Maybe if he had said Stephen Hawking instead of Lou Gehrig at first...

oh no, that's multiple sclerosis i think

a different sclerosis

either way fucked up

o wait no no no

you're right

I'm all for awareness. Just like you asked "what's ALS?" At least something as lame as the ice bucket challenge will get people to ask and become aware of it. Is this a disease that can be easily wiped out with the right breakthrough? I have no idea, yes this is a fad that will have its time and then be forgotten about except for those that suffer it, but at least if it gets the information out there its a small victory.

I wouldn't call it a challenge in August. If it were January, sure. Otherwise it's just a quick way to cool down briefly + raise some apparent money.

Oh, fucking priceless...

Thanks for posting that.

I've always thought that charity is bullshit and window dressing and this confirms it.

As for the sequester legislation there is a reason so many liberals signed it--- it was meant not to take effect. A sort of suicide pill. But the usual fuckers ended up cutting their noses to spite their faces, and everyone lost.