I’ve had cancer, and I typically give to the Leukemia and Lymphona Society.

EDIT: AAaaand now my post reappears. Sigh.

Then there was An Incident in Australia where the tubing clogged at exactly the WRONG moment for the lead singer, and they quietly dropped that sketch.

You see, the American Cancer Society has, by overwhelming report, been taken over by a bunch of thieving scumbags who pay themselves “executive”-level salaries and lunch all afternoon on the contributions of well-meaning folks like yourselves.

[citation needed]

And the onus is on you to find citations, not tell us to Google it. That being said, there has been documented corruption in large charities like this, so it wouldn’t surprise me.

You see, the American Cancer Society has, by overwhelming report, been taken over by a bunch of thieving scumbags who pay themselves “executive”-level salaries and lunch all afternoon on the contributions of well-meaning folks like yourselves.   It’s easy to google up the reputation of the ACS among those who pay attention to such matters.  When last I checked the ACS was collecting over $700M each year, and spending almost all on “overhead”.

(This phenomenon is a distressingly frequent problem with well-known charities, obvious in retrospect: once “volunteers” achieve control of an organization, they can begin milking it.  Most often the culprit is a direct-mail vendor, who then ensures that receipts mostly just pay for overpriced mailers.)

Please give the money to the American Cancer Institute, instead, which seems actually to spend it on something besides collecting more.  Stuff like research and, you know, patients?

Full disclosure: I have never had any knowing contact with the American Cancer Society or Institute or their respective employees and associates, but my grandfather died of cancer before I was born.

This is an unusual discussion.

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Other funds were sent directly to Inman from people who used paypal on IndieGogo to check out. That money was delivered to his attorney in 2 checks the week the fundraiser ended.

All of that was explained to Mr. Carreon days upon days before his “emergency” temporary restraining order was filed. The judge was likely to dismiss it as moot as the money was already on its way to the charities when Carreon filed his TRO.