Don't Give to Haiti; Give to Non-Haiti

As a general practice, Chez Buce does not give to disaster appeals. We figure that new incoming resources at a time of crisis arrive by necessity at the most inconvenient time when they are most difficult to process, and that relief of high-visibility disasters is most likely to be skewed at the expense of the less glamorous and more drab. We do cut some checks for charity, of course, but we try to do it in the most boring way.

But Mrs. hit upon a worthwhile idea: wouldn't this be the ideal time to make a gift to a provider that has nothing to do with Haiti--a provider, that is to say, of a sort most likely to have been hurt by the skew of resources in the direction of the the TV cameras?

So here it is, folks, the first-ever Underbelly appeal for the relief of the non-telegenic. No photos will be shopped, no bells rung, whistles blown. And in particular, don't send it here, sweetums: find the earnest, unglamorous and indispensable charity near you and far from the hot lights; pile it on and be ashamed of yourself for being such a cheapskate.