They call it crowd-funding, a 21st-century phenomenon by which people gather money on the Internet for reasons good, goofy and just God-awful. Here’s one of the latter. As published tonight (Sunday, December 29, 12013) in the National Post Holly and Jon Granken of London, ON, want the world to finance their move to Scotland. Don’t ask why. They’re raising money this way just because they can. Of course the reaction to this shameless panhandling has been quite sharp. And no one is being forced to give money. Only a chump would do it. But what an interesting example of how crass begging has risen up and into “the cloud” from the dirty sidewalk outside subway stations. National Post
