What I'd Like for My Birthday

Well, my 53rd birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, so here's what I'd like:

Please make a donation to any or all of these fine organizations:

- the National Center for Science Education - the main US organization fighting the nonsense of creationism and intelligent design

- the American Civil Liberties Union - one of the few organizations devoted to preserving our rights and fighting the creeping totalitarianism of government

- the Canadian Civil Liberties Association - the Canadian version of the ACLU

- the James Randi Educational Foundation - devoted to improving critical thinking and exposing the charlatans of pseudoscience and quack medicine

- the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance - a small grassroots organization devoted to preserving wild areas in my favorite part of the world

- Planned Parenthood of Waterloo Region - here in the Bible belt of Ontario we need Planned Parenthood to get out the information that anti-abortion groups want to suppress

- Ecojustice Canada - formerly the Sierra Legal Defence Fund, one of Canada's leading environmental organizations

That's what I would like.