Natural born missionaries?

Natalie: LOL!

I’ve been on the mailing list of an animal rights group for years. In fact, it was their weekly newsletter that pushed me into the PETA. No, not that PETA, I mean People Eating Tasty Animals at http://www.mtd.com/tasty/.

Anyway, I finally got an actual person on the telephone. Seems that the previous owner of my house was a contributor. And they explained (softly and gently, as if to a child) that they never take contributor’s addresses off their mailing lists. Pfish and pfiffle.

Maybe you’ve run aground on a similar, institutional sandbar?

Daniel, I'm the original owner of this house, and I'm pretty sure I'd remember if I had ever made a contribution to the Sierra Club. That act would have been memorialized by the self-amputation of some important bodily member as a reminder not to do it again. Last time I checked, I had all my important bodily members (and I check pretty often).

Now, I did have a subscription to Outside Magazine for awhile, and everyone knows they're all commies, so that's probably where the SC got my name.

Still, you'd think there would be certain zip codes where they'd figure out that the cost of postage will be about 100 times the amount of total donations. (Pick an oilfield town...any oilfield town. Then, for us, add in the fact that Dubya's our homey. This is one instance where profiling might be a wise business move.)