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Saturday, June 15, 2002
 | Towel Drive |
I was talking to a fellow who volunteers at the local homeless shelter, and it seems that all kinds of shelters are chronically short on towels. He said that people from all around the city come to his shelter just looking for a place to take a shower. He often has to turn them away because there are not enough towels for the people staying there, much less everyone else. So the solution to this is for everyone to get their friends and co-workers to go through their closets and donate the extra towels they have taking up space to your local shelters.
All you need is a big empty box and this flyer. To print the flyer, right click anywhere but on a picture and choose "Select all". Then, right-click again and choose "Print". Write in the date with a sharpie or magic marker. Or, here's a word document that you can use if you've got Microsoft Word. 7 - 10 days should be enough time to allow for the towel drive.
Now, take the box to work, or to your church, or school, or wherever. Tape the sign up over the box. Put your own donations in there first, to get the ball rolling. Then, spend the next week or so "encouraging" people to bring some towels. Offer incentives and that sort of thing. If you're the boss, this should be easy. At the end of the towel drive, take the towels to the shelters in your area. Call the Salvation Army for the locations of the shelters. They seem to have a line on that sort of thing.
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Friday, June 14, 2002
I put up an Obituary blog. I'll fill it in as I go around looking for news. I'm having a hard time finding hometown articles about the three soldiers who were killed in the plane crash in Afghanistan on Wednesday. I found one for Air Force Staff Sgt. Anissa A. Shero, our first female military casualty, but nothing yet about the others.
If I forgot anyone famous who died this year let me know. Also, if someone you know has passed on and you want to memorialize them on the obituary page, send a link to their obituary to comments@hereinreality.com
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Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Q. What do Jello, Tombstone Pizza, Kool-Aid, Post Cereals, Velveeta, and Stove Top Stuffing all have in common?
A. These are just a few of the foods that are manufactured by the same company that brings us the Marlboro Man and Virginia Slims.
Lunchables; Handi-Snacks; Shake and Bake; Good Seasons Salad Dressings; Kraft Macaroni & Cheese (the Cheesiest!); the list goes on and on. All of these companies are owned by Kraft, which in turn is owned by the Phillip Morris Company.
"So what?" you may think, "Cigarettes are cigarettes. Eating these foods won't be harmful to my family." But ask yourself this: Can a company that has made billions upon billions of dollars profiting from the death and suffering of countless people worldwide be trusted to do what's best when it comes to making the products that we feed our families with?
Consider the recall in 2000 of Taco Bell Home Original Taco Shells. They were pulled off of supermarket shelves after it was discovered that they were made from genetically altered corn that was not approved as fit for human consumption. Taco Bell Home Originals is only one of the dozens of food lines owned by Kraft/Phillip Morris. Food safety issues aside, do we really want to put more money in the pockets of a company full of executives that have gotten rich from the death, suffering, and grief of billions of people?
Smokers may arguably be to blame for their own problems, but what about the people who don't smoke that have fallen victim to the tragedy of tobacco exposure? Cancers and emphysema brought on by second-hand smoke? Kids with athsma who have to breathe the second hand smoke of thoughtless adults? Unborn babies facing terrible health risks because of exposure to carbon monoxide and nicotine? My father never smoked a cigarette in his life, but when his mother was dying from emphysema I can tell you that he suffered. All the while, executives in the tobacco industry buy fabulous homes and cars, take exotic trips, and send their kids to Ivy League schools.
When the tobacco settlement numbers started rolling in, I wondered how the tobacco companies would ever make it. Now I know. They've turned to selling us food to make up for the losses.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Nuclear Waste Route Maps
Will radioactive waste be traveling through your community? Click the link above to see how close nuclear waste will get to your home as it makes it's way to the Yucca Mountain storage facility.
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Monday, June 10, 2002
ALL LOOK SAME.com
Do you consider yourself culturally sensitive? Can you distinguish between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean people? Here's a test to find out. Requires flash. I scored "pretty good".
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Sunday, June 09, 2002
Weird, sick, and rude
I'm going to put up a seperate blog just for this kind of story, because I come across so many along these lines and am never sure where to put them.
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