The N-Judah Chronicles

One of the most obvious examples of Why There Is A God is the creation of the Do Not Call List, helping to put an end to countless calls at dinnertime offering things you don’t need or want. At last, there is a way to stop the madness.
One of the most obvious examples of Why We Need To Keep Praying is the invasion of City streets by armies of the Children of the Corn (as they have been named by a friend of the N Judah Chronicles).
All allegedly represent Good Causes, and all hassle you over and over and over again. One cannot call up a phone number and be placed on the “Don’t Bug Me While I’m Waiting for the N Judah” list, or the “Please, Will You Just Leave Me Alone” list. No matter how polite you are, they just don’t leave you alone.
Today, I was walking to the N-Judah stop at 9th and Irving, and didn’t see until it was too late that once again, we’d been invaded, this time with a pack of Greenpeace-ish folks. They are getting smarter, too, just like successive models of Cylons, or whatever. You can see in this picture how they staked out EVERY SINGLE CORNER, so there was no escape from the sales pitch.

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