Molly Ivins -- Give A Gift Of Change

You simply send a check in honor of everyone on your list to some worthy cause you know they cherish and regard the simplicity of it. Checks do not require packaging. You will not be adding to the plastic peanut plague, so ecologically incorrect.

A gift subscription to a progressive magazine is always timely: your basic ACLU, any environmental outfit, campaign finance reform groups -- you choose your own favorites.

This should be our shining hour.