The dog eats toe off sleeping owner story is beyond the beyond- thank you! (Yeah, sure, the owner has totally quit drinking now that the infection he refused to quit drinking long enough to go to the doctor to fix got eaten off. I so believe him.)

God, I would do 1965 Tom Lehrer so hard.

I shouldn't have bothered clicking through. There actually wasn't any more information. REVERSE PSYCHOLOGICAL TROLL IS REVERSE PSYCHOLOGICAL...or is she?

And Lindy, it's either LOL or lulz. One or the other.

Does it bother anyone else that million/billionaires spend their whole life making money off the backs of other people and then give it all away? It would be much more positive and have a large impact if they just spent their whole lives living less completely fucking self-absorbed and paying the people that work for them better (or fair) wages.

You're late.

Wanna see that Palin-mocking music video.

@4, that thought bothers every Evergreen freshman, yes.

@4,
Absolutely.

"Charity" like this is nothing more than a forum for the wealthy to display their power and to demand a sort of fealty from those less fortunate. They don't want well paid workers and a thriving middle class, they want the poor to beg them for their table scraps. The wealthy want to poor to publicly praise them.

Unless it's completely anonymous, charity is merely a way for the giver to feel superior to the taker.

(disclaimer: I'm sure many billionaires are nice people and many charity givers are nice people too... but it still remains that charity is more a way for the giver to feel good rather than a way for the receiver to feel good).

Love the Tom Lehrer clips the past few days. He was making fun of stupid half a century before Colbert and Stewart.

Yeah totally @7 What's the point in sharing thoughts/ideas anyways? I mean everybody has already had them and they are so incredibly stupid anyways.

"Charity" like this is nothing more than a forum for the wealthy to display their power and to demand a sort of fealty from those less fortunate.

The rich don't care about lording it over the poor; the poor are non-human in their eyes. The rich view the objects of their philanthropy the same way you'd view a spider that you took the time to usher out of the house, rather than flushing down the toilet.

Ostentatious public displays of charity are aimed not at the poor but at other rich people. Many famous billionaires are rich because they are insanely competitive by nature. No matter how wealthy they become, they will feel compelled to play a constant game of "keep up with the Gateses." Warren Buffett challenged other billionaires to meet his giving goals because he's a competitive asshole, not because he gives a damn about poor people.