Phligm Phlagm part 2

[philmophlegm]

The man who was killed by a flying model lawnmower at an NFL game. (True story.)

Three Things You Didn't Know About The Arachnids That Live On Your Face.

What is #GamerGate?

Much respect to this Italian doctor.

Inflating normal lungs versus inflating smoker's lungs.

What charities need to learn from #icebucketchallenge.

How those transfer deadline day last minute deals are done.

Apparently, almost half of Americans have never eaten lamb!

Charlie Powell, the greatest multi-sport athlete you've never heard of.

On internet bigotry and hereditary entrepreneurialism.

I'd never heard of Brooks Newmark until today, but bravo sir for having the balls to say this.

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Not with you on Newmark, though the practices of some charities as with individuals and other kinds of associations of individuals can leave something to be desired at election time.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I don't expect anyone to actually agree with me on most of the things I post. YMMMV. (Your moral mileage may vary.) I absolutely agree with Guido on this though. Charities and pressure groups should be wholly separate, and the latter should not get the tax and other benefits of the former.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I don't agree - charities are inevitably involved in advocacy and all that implies.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I think inevitably they always will be, because with so many issues, it's only charities that have the expertise to advise and the authority to raise an issue as something that requires legislation. And then there's the whole issue of how else someone who is not particularly rich and wants to raise an important point about a fixable but unsexy and not particularly profitable problem can possibly proceed.

I have to admit though that with some very large rich charities with very broad remits, I feel a tad uneasy. I am not sure that their donors really know what they are up to.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

As you may have noticed, I disagree with you on almost everything, on principle :-p