‘Tis the season for giving.
What’s with this ‘Tis business anyway? Is it that much harder to say than it’s? It’s more Shakespeare-y, but that’s about the only difference I can see.
Anyway, today I made a small monetary donation. Small in stature, but big in proportion. Seriously you guys, so broke. Wow does Christmas suck. I sometimes wonder if January 1st is a holiday just so we can all stretch a bad check an extra day. Really start off the new year right.
In the interest of remaining a somewhat bad person, I made the donation to a podcast network as opposed to starving children. I know. And technically, I can see the perspective where it kind of just looks like I was paying for content I already absorbed. I can see that perspective because that’s entirely what happened.
Why’d I go this way?
For one thing, I like podcasts, and starving kids do not have podcasts. And if they did, I bet they’d be terrible. Just constant complaints about hunger, reminiscences about that one time they had foods. A discussion about what kind of pants fit a child with very skinny limbs and a bloated belly.
For another whole thing, I really beleive in what Maximumfun.org is doing. I think they put out really good stuff and care about it. Not that they’re the only ones, but I think they’re in a position where $5 bucks actually does help. I love This American Life, and I’ve donated before. They run on the support of listeners like me, which I appreciate, but I also think they run on the support of millions of listeners like me, whereas MaximumFun probably has a smaller crowd. Which wouldn’t be true if there was any justice in the world. But if there was justice in the world already, then we wouldn’t need a Justice League. We might not even need an Avengers. Or a Demolition Man. That’s just not a world I want to live in. I find the words “Demolition Man” too funny to even consider that world.
I feel mildly good about it. Though honestly, I don’t feel like it’s a Christmas-y thing for me to donate a few bucks somewhere. I kind of end up doing that every so often anyway.