How To Earn Two Bucks The Easy Way #290 By Hank Silverberg Commentary Don't worry. I am not going to write about the debate, or even politics this week. I am going to start by telling you a somewhat funny story. On Thursday of this past week, there was an interesting piece of mail that I thought was just the usual junk. But a closer look showed the official logo of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the upper right hand corner. So I opened it. It was the usual type of form letter asking me to fill out the inserted survey and to please return it to them. The Gallup polling organization was doing the survey, and that encouraged further review by me. I almost threw it away, but then at the end of the pitch to fill out the form they said they were enclosing "a small gift" as a thank you for my participation. There were two crisp $1.00 bills in the envelope. ( The $2 I earned) Well, darn. Now I felt obligated to do the survey. The mon