About Amazon? I read Morford's column and followed the links, and then followed more links, and there seems to be a huge discrepancy amongst the sites about how much which corp gave to whom. I'm withholding judgement until I can find something definitive. One of the sites he cites only has data as current as the '02 elections, which I don't think is good enough.

It takes a while for data from the elections to be released and compiled. (Except where a donor makes their donation public or advertises it themselves.) And to review and cross-reference numbers and interpret them.

I feel that data from the '02 elections is pretty current. I can't imagine that many corporations changed corporate policy that drastically between '02 and '04, for instance. It's not just about one election (sorry, can't resist the urge to ramble on) of course. A corporation with a history of subsidizing the Republican party, for instance, probably means a corporation that supported both Bushes and Reagan.

Corporations are free to donate their money where they will.

And I am free to spend my money with corporations if and only if I agree with where they spend theirs.

I object to handing a cooporation my money if they, in turn, are going to hand it over to a bunch of irresponsible, short-sighted extremists.

(I didn't actually get there via Morford, although I did see he had a column about it.)

I'm with you absolutely about the not spending my money with folks who do bad things with it. It's why Domino's Pizza never ever will be at my house. But when, in very limited surfing, I found three sites who all claimed to have some authority on the subject, have very different statistics, I'm going to reserve judgement about who I quit shopping with until I can find something that has more accuracy.

What did Domino's do? Not that I'm all that crazy about their pizza, but sometimes they're the only game in town. *pout*

Also, I know they don't have the selection Amazon or even Barnes & Noble have, but powells.com is always a good source of books for me, when they have what I want.

Thanks for the BuyBlue site too. I have been boycotting Fox TV and Walmart for months. I'll add amazon to my list, as much as that will probably hurt.