A photo of Jules Eichorn taken in the late 1970s at a Sierra Club Mountaineering Base Camp in the Minarets Range of the Sierra Nevada in California (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lottery officials indicate that during the last few hours before the drawing Friday night clerks across the country were generating $1 million in sales per minute.
That's a lot of ink, a lot of paper, and a whole lot of that nasty electricity produced by burning coal. It would be a bit hypocritical for Sierra Club, Audubon, NRDC, or members of other environmeddlist groups to participate in such an unclean and unholy event, as it would clearly conflict with their religion. Even a $640 million payout should not tempt them.
