From the Trib, we read:
For despondent Democrats there's a new treatment, if not a cure, for their lingering Election Day blues. Think retail therapy.A Web site called Choose the Blue is offering shopping advice this holiday season, providing information about which companies' employees give to Democrats and which prefer Republicans.
Costco workers gave more to Democrats, for example, while Wal-Mart's preferred Republicans, according to campaign finance records. Donna Karan's people lean left. Fruit of the Loom's give to the right.
For Ann and Bill Duvall, the site's creators, Nov. 3 brought great disappointment--and a call to action.
"We woke up that morning just really devastated and depressed, and in some ways I'm grateful that we came up with this idea because that's where we've been able to put our energy," Ann Duvall, 56, said.
So Choose the Blue is self-help meets activism meets consumerism. Its goal is to shift vast amounts of wealth to people who support the Democrats' cause.
Using information from the Federal Election Commission Web site and the Center for Responsive Politics site, www.opensecrets.org, the Duvalls give their fellow Democrats a gift that could keep on giving.
Again, I don't know how effective these sorts of boycotts are, but at least people are trying to do something other than complaining - which is the Republican method. That's a whole other topic though (how is that Republicans complain about being victimized when they control the White House, the Judiciary, the Congress, the major media outlets, etc. etc., doo da doo da).
Update:
and unsurprisingly, Tom Tomorrow (third reference in 24 hours, whoo hoo), agrees with me:
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2004/12/13/tomo/index1.html
