Gooooooaaaaaaaaal

You did it! You uploaded photos of your face and $100,000 has been raised over at the Stephen & Melinda Gates Foundation. So far 20,042 photos have been uploaded. The money will be donated to Donors Choose.

Well done Colbertians!

Keep Those Faces Coming

More than halfway there in less than 24 hours! So far, $54,110 of the $100,000 has been donated and 10,822 user photos have been uploaded for the Stephen & Melinda Gates Foundation. The money will go to Donors Choose.

If you want to see "Your Face Here" go to Stephen & Melinda Gates Foundation and upload a photo of your face. Do it for the kids.

Oops, update. In the few minutes it took me to write the first two paragraphs, the numbers have now increased to $54,530 and 10,906.

So, keep those faces coming!

Faces Uploaded

Incredible. In two hours since Stephen first talked about uploading your face, more than 20% of the goal has been reached!

Did I mention you can see the numbers change each time you go to the Stephen and Melinda Gates Foundation website. (Or hit refresh.) They have 10 days to reach their goal and they already have $21,400 of the $100,000. And they need 20,000 faces uploaded and have 4,280 already.

It makes me wonder if they will have met their goal by the next time we see The Colbert Report.

Upload Your Face

Rick Parry of Perry fame did not do well in his recent GOP debate. He was trying to show that Romney has had evolving opinions over the years, but all Parry did was come out looking like a fool. Stephen was reminded of someone else and showed us the clip of George W. Bush flubbing the famous "Fool Me Once" quote. It most certainly does not look very professional for someone like Rick Parry or George W. Bush to flub up when speaking. Too bad that Stephen tripped over his tongue when he was telling us all about it.

Melinda Gates was the guest tonight. She and her husband Bill Gates do have a foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and it's worth looking at even if all you do is wait to see the photo of Melinda with Stephen. But you should read a little bit about what they are doing while you are there.

There is also the Stephen and Melinda Gates Foundation and you should go look at that too. It's to help children in two ways. One way is to eradicate polio and malaria in Africa and the second is to improve education in the United States.

Melinda spent most of the time talking about education. She said that having an effective teacher at the head of the classroom is the single most important thing to do for education. Here's how to spot a great teacher.

1. Manages class well
2. Gets students to think critically
3. Explains the lesson again if some students need to hear about it again.

Stephen asked if the plan in Wisconsin to de-certify teachers and cut their benefits helps kids in any way. While neither one came out and said it was a poor idea, I got the idea that Stephen and Melinda both thought it did not help kids.

And here's how we all can help. Go to
www.stephenandmelindagatesfoundation.org
and upload your photo. If 20,000 people submit their photo, they will donate $100,000 to DonorsChoose.org. And here's something I did not know. Stephen is on the Board of DonorsChoose!

So, go upload your face.