http://www.makeapact.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=89

So it was recently brought to my attention by my heroes Invisible Children, that for years now in Nigeria, radical religious groups have been holding Child Witch Hunts. Most kids who are accused are those who have lots their parents and are just an easy scape goat, so ontop of losing ones parents and having to fight for themselves, they are marked as a witch, scaring off any possible help. To make matters worse the children are tortured into admitting they are witches, then they are tortured until the radicals believe the witch is god, or they are buried alive or dropped in acid baths. 
It's really sick. I just dont get it, I really dont. Why are people so sick?

Please take the time to write a letter to the Nigerian government to stop this monstrosity! If you could write to at least one of the people in the link, or e-mail them, it would be so unbelievably amazing!

Meat tubes

Although I've done a lot of different types of community service, most of them are just helping provide support for the actual cause. For example fundraising, office work, sealing envelopes, etc.
So in attempts to try and become more a part of the actual cause a friend and I decided to work for a cause called Project Angel Food, which is a really good cause and I can say nothing but praise for the organization. It makes and delivers food to people living with AIDS, cancer, or other illnesses that are severe enough that the person has trouble making food for themselves. 

So day one working there was mostly an introduction, which was nice and well organized. 

Day two working there involved pushing the limits of our comfort zones. 

So after donning our very attractive aprons, gloves and (best of all) hairnets, they set us right to work moving these mysterious 3 foot, heavy, white plastic tubes that feel somewhat like pudding in a plastic bag. Then we were told to take a knife and slit the tubes open and dump its contents into a giant blender which was about four feet tall. Upon slitting open the tubes (which felt something like what I would imagine it felt like to slit open a belly of a pig...pleasant) we found they were full of ground meat. I'm a vegetarian, but I can handle preparing meat for the non-vegetarians, its not that big of a deal. But dumping these tubes of ground meat into a blender would be gross for anyone. Yuck. We did it though.

So I guess I'll live my life with no regrets knowing that I slit open these pig like tubes and dumped them in a blender, I can cross that off my bucket list now.

Intro

What is "the right thing"? What an annoying concept. We are constantly expected and told to do "the right thing", but what is that? And why does doing what you think is the right thing never turn out right?