Yeardley Smith has donated a combined $1.14 million dollars to a couple of microfinance organizations. The idea behind microfinance is that poor countries harbor plenty of hard-working, would-be entrepreneurs who, with just a little bit of capital, can launch small businesses that will make them less poor. Smith jumped in with both feet: Smith was first introduced to microfinance after seeing 2006 Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus on Oprah. Inspired to become actively involved, she traveled to Haiti, accompanied by Grameen Foundation president Alex Counts, to visit with women in remote villages to learn how microfinance and complementary health and literacy…
Day: November 2, 2009
FOX Demands You Watch Its Other Crappy Programs
“How did you get tickets?” – Lisa Simpson “They hid them in every millionth Krusty Klump Bar and Krusty Klump Bar with Almonds.” – Homer Simpson So you think you can stand two consecutive hours of So You Think You Can Dance? Feel like spending your Friday evening with reruns of Bones and House? Do you have any plans at all next week? Well cancel them quick because FOX is going to put “shout-outs” to the Simpsons across its primetime schedule all next week: Beginning Monday, Nov. 9 and continuing through Friday, Nov. 13, fans can watch FOX each night…
Quote of the Day
“Remember your hippopotamus oath!” – Homer Simpson