Look South Column

How to be a politically-correct slacker

“slacktivism Charlie Brown” by Elijah is licensed with CC BY 2.0.

If there is one thing I hate, it is chain emails, or chain letters, as they used to be known before the advent of computers. Most of you are familiar with them. You receive an unsolicited email or letter promising to make a wish come true, or prevent you from suffering some nasty fate, such as the sky falling on your head, if you forward the said correspondence to 50…