Bumper Stickers

I think we can safely draw the conclusion that if you want me to contribute to a political cause, you have to offer me a bumper sticker. I was motivated to join the ACLU by a desire to have an ACLU bumper sticker on my car. A few months ago the Human Rights Campaign sent me a mailing, which I probably would have looked at and thrown out except that there was a bumper sticker in it. That was enough to get me to keep the mailing sitting around, and thus there was a return envelope waiting to be filled with a check (my second ever political donation) and mailed off today as I mourned the success of the 11 anti-marriage ballot initiatives (the sticker will be going on my car soon).