Let's not swat flies with baseball bats, eh?

Great question.

On the basis of Witt's comments, I would not assume that any of the firebrand marketing specialists associated with the No More bluewashing effort as much sneezes without being "reimbursed."

No. No More is not run by Joyful Heart.

Thanks for offering your insight. Having the NFL's PSAs advocate for support of local shelters seems so easy. Do you suppose the league worries that too much of its fan base has a beef with the local shelters?

Yes, it is hard not to be cynical. So be cynical, but by God, be funny while you're at it.

Please tell me the pink drill bits are from an SNL skit hosted by Andrew Dice Clay.

Nope, it's not.

I see your point.

What's "truly unique" about Oval among the many good $.50/oz+Trappist and Abbey ales?

That is the problem in a nutshell. Well put.

Yep. I wonder how the writer, presumably associated in some fashion with No More, managed to screw up the launch year? According to Joyful Heart Foundation's 990, it helped launch No More in 2012, as you say.

Good points. Not everyone involved with supporting charities is a charity. Professional solicitors who have their contracted boiler room telemarketers call you during dinner to plug charities who will spend 90% of your donation to pay the solicitor are a good example.

I see that the options NM's site gives you to "take action" include buying NM Blue Dot clothing at eyeblack.com, which looks like a regular business, not a charity.

This may be a little on the cynical side. At the moment links to agencies on NM's site include a link to a listing of state coalitions, and I doubt they've all been vetted for compliance with NM's conditions on logo usage.

To be fair, if you visit No More's website, it is pretty easy to find links to state coalitions.

Actually, it's tax-exempt but not charitable. It's a trade association created solely to advance the private interests of its small, closed class of taxable members. Huge difference between private/mutual-benefit and charitable/public-benefit "nonprofits."

No doubt.

I still prefer wee-wee to Yuengling or Oberon (the Yuengling of Michigan): it's widely available, practically anyone can brew it, it doesn't have a cult following, and it leaves your clothes smelling about the same the next day if you spill it.

Ah, Yuengling. Takes me right to the beaches of Central Pennsylvania when I hear the word. If I close my eyes, I can almost smell the water treatment plant, taste the coal.