Sometimes I get a spam (in this case a chain letter email) that just makes me say “WTF?” So it was with this chain email that I received not once, but twice from the same sender, with the intriguing subject of “a way we can help the Gulf — please please please read!!”. The basic idea is that if we all focus our energy on envisioning the Gulf being healed, we can make it happen. Now, I’ve read The Secret, and I believe in the power of positive thinking and the law of attraction as much as the next guy (make of that what you will). But the whole “focusing your human sexual response mechanism” on the problem propels this into a whole new realm. By the way, the email also spams the URL http://tinyurl.com/come2gether, which resolves to http://letsdoandsaywedid.blogspot.com, and which features “A Call to Sacrificial Duty”. Interesting.