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Wednesday September 14, 2005 - 10:28AM EDT
CHARITIES ARE FOR SUCKERS
I'd never thought I'd see an article like that. It almost makes me want to cry tears of joy. It is not front page news but it top under Yahoo!'s most popularly emailed section. It is not nearly as vicious and indictment as a few of my blog posts but I've never seen that point of view verbalized in any news story up until now. Also it doesn't go the Iraq war route as a pillar empirical evidence which is doubly good because it shows a glimmer of real insight. He makes a couple of bold statements that I wouldn't wholeheartedly agree with and I think they are ultamitely extraneous. However the overall sense of the arguement and what he is trying to get across I agree with for the most part. There is the possibility that if probed in more detail the opinion could differ radically from mine but on the surface it is similar.
Today is a day for two-fors, because I also found this little gem.
Fed: Minorities pay more for housing loans
This is what some may categorize as institutional racism or at least be in a conversation with such things. I'm always reluctant to put the label of racism on things because it is such an ambiguous term, it doesn't mean much in itself because race is undefinable. Racism is a encompassing term for other more concrete issues that merit more detailed analysis or at least a better look. This is example of the intrisic problems with the system.
Actually lets make today a threepeat
Dutch to Open Electronic Files on Children
Not much explaining here. I've posted extensively on this. For a refresher my view is that some people are overly paranoid when it comes to privacy issues and that they are fooling themselves by thinking that not having centralized databases of information on them somehow protects them. The information exists somewhere and if the government wants it they can find it. What do you think the CIA is for, those acronyms aren't meaningingless letters that is what they do. Lets just stop playing cloak and dagger with a lot of this stuff, we are not little kids anymore.