How can we sit by and let this great city of ours look worse than a third world country when it comes to poverty, educational levels and the spread of the HIV virus?

 How? I continue to be stunned by this kind of news and these depressing statistics. Get involved. Go to YouthAIDS.org to see how you can help. 

Here is a nice story from the NY Times on Woody Harrelson and a mention of Nanking the film.

We can

On Thursday, I happened to catch an event – broadcast on C-SPAN – from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library where Mrs. Eunice Shriver was honored for her years of service to our country. At the end of the event, she gave a speech and the message was clear as a bell: service, volunteerism and family virtues are what is important in life.

 Mrs. Shriver looked frail but her spirit was gigantic and strong. If you can believe it, even though she had been hospitalized weeks earlier in the month, she traveled to China for her beloved Special Olympics. Mrs. Shriver has done more good work than any other woman in our country’s history. Her selfless love of mankind and her hard work for those people who are less fortunate and who may be mentally challenged will go down in history as an example of doing the right things in the right way. Mrs. Shriver is perhaps the best role model of any person who I have ever met. My wife and children admire her so much and in fact, both my son and my daughter have said that she is the living person that they admire most in life. I pray for a speedy recovery for Mrs. Shriver and I am praying in support for her family.

Don

Who knew? I certainly didn’t know Bruce was in the movie Slap Shot, one of my all time favorites. I will check it out next weekend and look for #7 around the net.