take my money

for those of you who don't know, care is a really great charity and i encourage you to donate to them frequently and in high dollar amounts.

but today they pissed me off.

well one of their lawyers did. i tried to give care 10000 dollars and they said they didn' t want it. i understand why my money wasn't good enough, since it's coming from an online poker company but still.

yes, there's legal issues. yes, the us hates online gambling. at one point, the rumor was that online poker was funding international terrorist organizations. now we know it's funding greedy businessmen, the same kind that line the streets of financial districts in cities everywhere.

2/3 of the rest of the world lives on less than $2 a day though, and that makes $10000 a lot of money to a lot of people. i know care's budget is almost a billion dollars but clearly they need more.

hey, there's greedy suits at my company (check out pokerfantasy after Sept. 1) too. some people might even call me one, though i wear jeans and a hoodie to work every day and have to walk down the sleazy sixth street in san francisco to get to my office (which i'm 99% sure used to be a garment factory (read:sweatshop).

the difference is that i got these suits to part with some of their so-called hard-earned cash. and while i sold them on charity as a marketing ploy -- and it is -- it's also something i believe in, even if they don't.

as someone with a strong math background (800 on gre math to prove it), i understand risking $1 billion for $10000 makes no sense. but in a better world, care's lawyers would have said take the money, and if the department of justice ever comes asking for it back, tell them we decided to feed 5000 starving children in niger who have no food because of a locust invasion instead.