For the last few weeks lots of celebrities like
Matt Lauer,
Kathie Lee Gifford,
Chris O’Donnell,
Martha Stewart,
Justin Timberlake and so many more have taken part in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Earlier this week, Larry King did it and he challenged Conan O’Brien to do the same. Yesterday, on his TBS late night show he accepted the challenge. Granted he only did it because he thought he was getting the money to do it, not that he had to do it and pay the money. Sadly, for him, and happily for us, he didn’t know that until after he did it. He he he!
I think this is by far the best version I’ve seen of the challenge; so if anyone can top this, go ahead. If you can’t, then just give the money to the
ALS Association.
ALS is a horrible horrible disease. My uncle had it and before it fully kicked in, he told me he wanted to die. A man, who would walk around Miami Beach, found himself to be a prisoner in his own body. His kids having to bathe him and taking care of his motionless body, until his time finally came. I hope we can up with a cure for this debilitating disease in my lifetime, so that no one else has to suffer through it ever again.
So if these Ice Bucket Challenges are helping to do that, then I say they are a good thing and let the ice come raining down. You hear that the three people Conan challenged, Former-President Jimmy Carter, soccer legend Pele and that kid who sees dead people Haley Joel Osment.
