If you have been anywhere near the Internet this past summer, you probably saw people doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Big-name politicians, like George W. Bush, Chris Christie, and Paul Ryan, did the challenge and shared videos of the experience online. Even president Obama got involved, declining to do the challenge, but pledging to donate money to the cause.
It was a fun activity for people to do with friends, and it seemed to do a lot of good for the cause by raising both awareness and funds. But absent from the trend was a good sobering dose of what ALS is really like. Here to remedy that is The Theory of Everything, a film about famous cosmologist Stephen Hawking and his inspiring struggle with the disease.
While this may not be a political issue, politicians certainly saw it as worthy of their individual attention over the summer. They even reached across the aisle, so to speak, challenging their colleagues from both sides to take the challenge.
Hollywood, D.C. 