#53, ledger, #58 Promethea:
re: what we can do

I cancelled my subscription to the local paper this year (by coincidence, they laid off 12% of the staff the next week), and this week am dropping Comcast (in favor of a DSL link). Haven’t watched TV in months, and don’t miss it. My incremental defunding of the media is not much, but it makes me feel better not to help them.

I stopped making annual contributions to my alma mater a couple of years ago in protest of their their spending priorities and non-merit based admissions. I wrote the University President to tell him why. Considering what they were spending money on, they obviously didn’t have any critical funding needs.

My political contributions go to individual candidates where I think they will make the most difference, not to the party, or Senate or House committees. I said never again after they supported Specter.

Most of my charitable contributions go to the Salvation Army. They are efficient and effective. And none of the money gets diverted to midnight backetball or “social justice” programs.

I do write my congress-critters, but doubt that does much good. I think they just tally the yeas vs. neas.