I clicke don the link about the toys and was not in the least surprised that it was the SA. They just fired one of our tenants from being a bellringer because he wasn't bringing in enough money.

Oh, that's disheartening. I don't know much about them, but I always had the vague sense that they were pretty good (probably based on Guys and Dolls), so I was pleased that they are taking over the old YMCA facility in town. Now I'm gonna have to think about whether I support that or not.

SA also does not provide services to same sex couples.

Incredibly cool infographic on Thanksgiving-related food searches from the NYT:

WTF? Searches for "deviled eggs" are more than twice as common in Indiana as Illinois? Crazy.

I was wondering, do other areas of the country have people putting kruggerands into the SA buckets at Christmastime? That's been a holiday tradition around here since the height of the anti-apartheid protests in the mid-80s. A few show up every season; one was already reported last week.

SA has an extremely fancy retreat facility in Rolling Hills estate - (on a cliff overlooking the ocean). So some of their money goes other places besides helping the poor.

Hi everybody! I had to skip a lot, on account of yesterday was too busy to go online and y'all were talky. But HI! Missed you!

What if it's the future, and you and some pointy-eared guy travel back into the past to fix the timeline - if you break into an SA building, will the manager of the facility give you jobs?

I'm waiting for our SA to wander into this thread and wonder just what we're talking about.

I stopped supporting SA when they sought out the legal right to discriminate against gays. ptooooeey!

What I really want to know about the food search graphs are whether a low percentage of searches means that (a) people from those areas already know how to make pie crust or (b) people in those areas just don't eat pie. (Or butternut squash. Or cookies.)