Happy Movember

Seems reasonable that if you wanted to donate to a charity of your choosing, you'd just go ahead and write out a check, or charge your credit card, or maybe call them and do a phone donation. These days almost all charitable organizations make it even easier by taking money online. If all that is just too drab for you, there's the next level, whereby you sign up for a foot race or walkathon and raise money by annoying your friends, family and co-workers with having to sponsor your good time. All that, too, has become old hat. But guess what: now you can give money to help prevent prostate cancer by sponsoring a friend to grow a moustache. Hopefully these friends will all be male, but I know a few women who could enter and rake in quite a bit of dough.

Anyway, this weird phenomenon comes this month only in what is called Movember, which is a combination of November and moustache--MO and VEMBER. Get it? It's a dumb idea for a good cause, and an even dumber name. In fact, they should have called it Dumbvember. My son might be doing it or he might just not be shaving; either way I'm not giving him a dime for a bodily function he can't even stop if he wanted to. I may just send the Prostate Cancer Foundation some money, though. You can too by going to www.pcf.org.