[cryptical]

Wouldn't it have been "better" to have the government run this program? It seems to me that private charity like this disenfranchises government social workers. If more acts like this occur, the government might have to lay off dozens of people with degrees in Social Work, Womens Studies, and the like.

[KineticKitty]

How can this be???? Everyone says America is Bad BAD BAD. < /sarcasm>

[boris]

There is a story about mathematician Paul Erdos. He cared about nothing except math. Since he did not have a bank account, when he won a prestigious prize in math, he got it in cash.

A friend and he were walking to go to dinner when Erdos was approached by a beggar. "How much will dinner be?" he asked his friend. "About $25, I think."

Erdos carefully peeled $25 from a thick wad of bills--around $5000 as I recall--and gave the rest to the beggar.

--Boris

[Consort]

He feels their pane.

[maxwell]

That's pretty durn cool. Maybe I'll do that someday... I'd have to have 300 bucks first though...