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To: Ilaine who wrote (94125)	1/7/2005 7:33:46 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793770

Seems to me that part of being charitable is not automatically thinking the worst of others. Concur. Change of subject. Yesterday you mentioned monkey-see-monkey-do. In that spirit, I offer that I have not contributed a dime to the tsunami victims. I didn't contribute a dime to the 9/11 victims, either. Same rationale. When we have these highly visible disasters, people contribute very, very generously to relief efforts. That's a good thing. But what happens is that most of the contributions are not new money. People typically divert their contributions from whatever it is that they usually support--Alzheimer's research, after school programs, ESL, church, animal shelters, disabled veterans, whatever--and these efforts really suffer while the disaster du jour becomes oversubscribed. Recognizing this, my contrarian approach is to come up with new money to support my old favorites to try to compensate for their losses. When I mentioned this after 9/11 I got a lot of grief. I may again. But I urge people not to forget their local food banks or Toys for Tots or whatever it is that they care about in non-disaster years.