One For One

I would like to congratulate CLAY COOPER on his recent purchase of Tom's Shoes. For every pair of Tom's you buy, Tom's will give a pair of shoes to a child in need. "One For One". Not 5% of your purchase goes to support this charity. You buy a pair and Tom gives a pair. Thanks to Clay, Jaunito or Jaunita can now play soccer and not worry about what they might step on. Sure it's clever marketing(/charity) but I would rather participate in marketing that give shoes to barefoot kids in Argentina than marketing that helps a Nike exec install a Cristal filled hot tub with a stripper pole in his summer cottage. Plus, it turns out charity is extremely comfortable.

Bluetooth for the Toothless

Charities are expensive. (small side note... cherries also are expensive)  want to spend a month in El Salvador with HELP international working on various sustainable development projects?  $2750 plus airfare.  How about participating in a Tom's shoe drop and distributing free shoes to kids in need in Argentina?  about $2000.  I would need to take out a college loan to do either.  I really do want to make a difference somehow, but it seems like the easiest thing would be to start up my very own non-profit organization! Upon evaluating the current areas where I feel much change and improvement is due, I have decided on an organization capable of helping EVERYONE!  (drumroll) It's called Bluetooth for the Toothless.  It's simple and promising. Ever been in a grocery store and been freaked out by a complete stranger asking you what kinds of diapers he should buy only to find out the alleged stranger was talking on a tiny and extremely unnecessary bluetooth headset device?  or... Ever drive by an unfortunate homeless person talking to himself about how the real JFK assassin was Elvis Presley? Two seemingly unsolvable problems with an easy solution. Those bold individuals who have actually upgraded to newer ridiculous bluetooth headsets can donate their old ones to the less fortunate... thus solving two problems at once! No more uncomfortable moments amongst our bluetoothed peers in the post office or creepy moments with the stop-light windshield cleaners babbling to themselves about selling Hoover vacuums in Vietnam... well... they will still be babbling to themselves...but... you'll just assume their talking to their clients in Hanoi.

Hand 'em over Becks...