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Mar. 4th, 2010 10:25 amI survived Gallifrey One! Um. Pics still in my camera as usual. I have lingering crud, so I'm still low-energy. But it was a total blast and I have about two dozen photos of Doctors taking photos of other Doctors.
I actually just hopped on to post my delight with the Girl Scouts. Since the cookies are ubiquitous at work right now, I did a little Googling to find out what their memetic stance is on sexuality and so on. I found this: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97977 It's a conservative site painstakingly going through the entire modern Girl Scouts curriculum to be horrified at it. It's really amazing, because I can tell by the tone they're horrified, but the curriculum exactly as they describe it sounds spectacular to me.
Sowhile I still don't like the cookie company making money off cute children, I may make an outright donation to my coworker's daughter's troop today. :)
Edited to add: I've just looked at the numbers and, unlike most child sales fundraisers, Girl Scouts gets about 70% of the gross. (~15% troop, ~55% larger organization). That's incredibly reasonable. I still have to make my own navigation around the issue of children and parents pressured to sell (I always hated that in school), but knowing that the substantial majority of the money is actually going to some pretty awesome life skills programs has me won over.
I actually just hopped on to post my delight with the Girl Scouts. Since the cookies are ubiquitous at work right now, I did a little Googling to find out what their memetic stance is on sexuality and so on. I found this: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97977 It's a conservative site painstakingly going through the entire modern Girl Scouts curriculum to be horrified at it. It's really amazing, because I can tell by the tone they're horrified, but the curriculum exactly as they describe it sounds spectacular to me.
So
Edited to add: I've just looked at the numbers and, unlike most child sales fundraisers, Girl Scouts gets about 70% of the gross. (~15% troop, ~55% larger organization). That's incredibly reasonable. I still have to make my own navigation around the issue of children and parents pressured to sell (I always hated that in school), but knowing that the substantial majority of the money is actually going to some pretty awesome life skills programs has me won over.
