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OUT OF THE LOOP

I am going off the political grid a bit.

With the new computer, I lost all my bookmarks to the lefty sites and couldn't think of any that I would want to go and look up.

I have kept getting email from a lot of them though and I realized that I wasn't going to use the email to put them back up on my list either.

In fact, I figured that if I couldn't remember them or miss them why keep getting the email?

So I am unsubscribing.

I have said "no" to Senator Leahey, the National Democratic Committee, Equal Rights in California, and so on.

I have only kept MoveOn and the Clinton Foundation which is not really political but then again is very political isn't it?

In the same vein I am also unsubscribing from some magazines and other mailings that I asked for but never, ever look at.

Time to clean house.

Why invite one's own spam?

I know that to answer spam mail in general is just asking to be bombarded with more spam—they know that you are really there—but the legit sites are more than happy to unsubscribe.

This is all part of an opting out strategy overall I guess.

I can see the pattern.

Of course I am on the No Call Registry for the house and cell phones.

And now I am also canceling catalogs that we get without asking. Not that we ask for any. Maybe Road Runner, the athletic shoe/clothing place.

You can go to this site: Catalog Choice.

Goodbye Sharper Image, Hammacher Schlemmer, Wolfersons, Harry and David, and so on—the persistent, we never buy why do they send us these, catalogs.

Labels: culture, life, politics