A Special Shout-Out to American Greetings

Dear American Greetings,

Welcome to my little space on the Internet. As you know, some of us were none too happy to find that your Blue Mountain subsidiary posted a so-called greeting card that was biased politically. Something you called Love Democratic Style.

While it is not generally my fashion to conduct boycotts of products, I feel that in this case it is both easy and justified. Why is it easy? Because my local greeting card emporium is loaded with cards of all sorts. Some are made by a company you may know as Hallmark. Occasionally, I like to buy a blank card and (egad!) do the writing myself. Imagine that. Some people do not need greeting cards. Whatever will you do?

As for the e-greetings, e this. I can do my e-greeting via cleverly crafted e-mails or by stopping by a place like The Nature Conservancy, who will happily send an e-greeting to the recipient of my choice. Free too.

The next time you consider putting politically biased cartoon e-greeting cards on the Internet, perhaps you will remember these things and think twice about whom you offend with your greeting card satire.

Thanks for stopping by.

P.S. For those of you who may be innocent bystanders and are wondering what in Hell I'm talking about; you can find the answer here.