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I posted two things on DW last night.  Normally they crosspost to LJ automatically, but this failed.  The message is
"Failed to connect to http:www.livejournal.com/interface/xmlrpc"
Does anybody know what I should do to get crossposting working again?

in the meantime, here are links to the DW posts:
Trust Women
Second Time Faster

Also the text in the input box for this LJ post is blinking once a second, which is getting old.

I made a donation today to help Haiti

I found an article about the Richard Dawkins Foundation's collecting paypal donations to send to Doctors Without Borders and the International Red Cross, and made a donation.  No big deal, except in the process of finding it I came across another article.

It's what I've come to think of as typical--saying basically that if an atheist gives to an atheist charity the fact that there is some faint hope of fighting the pervasive prejudice against atheists by donating means that donation doesn't count, and besides, your conscience comes from God and how can atheists be so dumb that in spite of experiencing their conscience they deny God.  The usual.

He's got me all wrong.  I gave through an atheist organization because I turned down the heat and gave up soda pop to scrape together money to be able to help people out.  I emphatically don't want it squandered on gilding and limousines, or--God help us--on solar powered talking bibles. 

Your mileage may vary.  If you feel that what a Haitian child with two broken legs who hasn't eaten in  week really needs is a solar-powered talking bible, by all means fund it.  But I hope that I--and most people!--have better sense.