Sorry about your mother’s friend. Sadly, disease does not discriminate between good and bad people (not that anyone good or bad deserves ALS).
The campaign is worthy for making ALS a household name, even if the people running it are less than selfless (although personally I have no reason to question their motivation). Its a terrible disease that deserves public awareness and the research funding that comes with that.
As for the ice bucket, not so bad. Hell, Russians do it for fun.
Yes, thank you, I’m sorry for your loss also.
And you are right, awareness does count with these issues.
I have no idea if their expenditures are in or out of line with other charities. And I know some are not supporting them because of stem cell research, etc.
Generally I don’t drill down that far with these things, although perhaps I should.
But, I’m trying to be attuned to these “social media” things, because dear daughter says they are the way of the future. In terms of that, they’ve totally won this round.
Oh, and let me not leave this subject without repeating that I think it is just another disgrace on Obama that he turned down ETHEL KENNEDY’S ice bucket challenge. I hope at least that he gave the money, but with his defenders in the media still defending him (wobbly though their knees may be getting at this point) I have no idea.