Since I posted that Phelps thing, I feel I aught to troll for humanitarian relief as well. Today's the last day to chip in an get it to count towards your 2004 taxes, and small donations of $35 add up when a few hundred people give.
I chiped in my ducats to Oxfam, mainly because I met someone who worked for them at MFA's concert during the DNC, and she was pretty cool. Plus they pledge to use 90% of funds for aid (as opposed to some nonprofits that manage to spend a lot of their money raising more money).
There are a lot of places to give too, and I think they're pretty much all good. If you can, you might want to think about kicking down a few denero. Consumeristic as it may be, it's really the only way many of us have to participate in helping out our fellow humans in need.
Speaking of which, for those of you in NYC, my man Sam Tressler is organizing a relief party at the Allegator Lounge tomorrow night (the 1st) in Bilzburg from 8pm to 3am. It's off the corner of Lorimer and Metropolitan, and you get $1 off all your drinks (and of course free pizza). Suggested donation is $20, and will go to the International Red Cross. Stop in, drop the cashola on Sam, hang out with fellow go-gooders and nurse your hangover away. It's social capital and humanitarian goodness all rolled into one big headache-relieving evening. And did I mention free pizza?
