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TAS who want to avoid Mr. Buffett's mistake to send your donations to: br> -- Jim Bono br> Midlothian, Virginia /p>

As Mr. Homnick eloquently points out, for Mrs. Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates to use their blessings to deny the most innocent among us life itself is beyond perverse.

It reminds me of when I worked for a company that put on a charity drive wherein they wanted as close to 100-percent employee participation as they could get. To that end someone went around to the employees imploring us to contribute at least $1 to the cause, thereby giving the company bragging rights. When I saw that the cause was the United Way, one of whose charities is Planned Parenthood, I steadfastly refused to contribute. My employer's Shylock tried to impress upon me that I could designate that my contribution went only to some specific charity associated with United Way.

p>Nevertheless, I continued with my refusal. Since money is fungible my donation of a clamshell to their shell game would have simply caused United Way to designate my $1 (net overhead, of course) to the charity of my choice while simultaneously removing an equivalent amount from that charity's portion of the general fund and redistributing the general fund accordingly. Therefore the net result of my contribution would have been to increase Planned Parenthood's coffers by, say, .016 cents. But that would have been .016 cents too much! br> -- R. Trotter br> Arlington, Virginia /p>

I have just "discovered" Mr. Homnick in your online edition. Absolutely amazing wordsmithing.

p>Amen, Mr. Homnick. You have a new fan.

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