This one's a bit out of left field, I suspect, coming as it does from the chairman of the Center For Inquiry, Los Angeles bureau. I'm really not sure how many folks here are familiar with this skeptics' organization. I've been reading their journal, the Skeptical Inquirer for something like a decade now, and it's been a most enlightening and informative experience. In any case, I got a copy of this message from CFI Chair Eddie Tabash in my email, and thought the first two lines really needed to be shared with a (slightly) wider audience:

Like most Americans, I have been experiencing difficult economic times in this most challenging year. Nonetheless, I have personally donated a total of $100,000 to CFI during 2010.

Well, Ed, I must say, I am glad to know that most Americans are experiencing difficult economic times like you. You see, if they were experiencing them like me, they wouldn't have a dime to their names, let alone a hundred grand for charity. I'm actually fortunate in having a pair of understanding parents who are helping me through this most challenging year, but if most Americans didn't have those hundred thousands just waiting for charities to receive them, oh! How much more challenging might it be for all of us!

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