I don't know anything about the Deftones. I'm not aware of ever having heard a note of their music, and I probably didn't like it if I did. I'm pretty finicky.Having said that, I'm a pretty sympathetic cat when terrible things happen to people who aren't assholes. And so far as I know, the bassist for the Deftones, Chi Cheng, isn't an asshole. I assume that if I'm wrong about that, one of you will correct me.
On November 4th of last year, he was in what was described as a horrible car accident and has been in a coma ever since. For whatever reason, his animalistic insurance company has cut off his coverage and his family is pretty desperate.
If the United States ever gets serious about health care reform, I think they should - at a minimum - disallow the cutoff of coverage to anyone who did the right thing, got insured and paid his or her premiums. It seems to me that that's precisely the point of getting insured in the first fucking place. I don't care if you're liberal or conservative, I think that's something we can all agree on.
I know the arguments against what I'm suggesting, I just don't care about them very much. That some anonymous corporate ghoul somewhere can unilaterally decide which of his customers gets to die on any given day is worse than a mortal sin, it's a continuing obscenity. I'm as much of a free-market, running dog lackey of the bourgeoisie as the next guy, but even I draw the line at actually killing another human being in the name of the bottom line.
Why his band or record label haven't stepped up isn't for me to say, but it seems as though they haven't.
Anyhow, Mr. Cheng's mother has had to set up a website to solicit donations to pay for her son's continuing care. If you want to do a good deed today and help another human being out, maybe you can go there and throw the family a few bucks. Or you can do it for someone in a similar situation.
I know that it seems like I've asked you folks to do stuff like this more and more over the last year or so, and I feel like a dick doing it. But there are things that I read, see and hear that piss me off to no end and that I'd like very much to change. Sadly, the only real resource I have you.
On the other hand, I haven't really asked much of you over the years. I've never had a PayPal button or an Amazon Wishlist or anything like that, and I can't see a scenario where I would. Not that there's anything wrong that. It's just not me. I don't want this to feel like a job. But maybe, just maybe, asking you to show whatever appreciation you have for whatever it that I do for your day by helping somebody else out is the way to go. Or maybe not.
If I can figure out how, I'll probably set up something on the sidebar that will lead you to places that I think are worthy of your consideration, even though I really don't want my dopey blog to be about that. I want you to have fun here and maybe think a little about things that you otherwise wouldn't in a way that you might not have considered. But there are things I feel strongly about and that I might occasionally humbly ask you to help out with.
Okay, that's enough of my trying to be something approaching a human being. I'll resume being an angry prick shortly.
Thanks to Antiquiet for the story.
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