Meet Some of Reason's Donors!
We like them a lot, so should you.
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GoogleLast December, Reason held its annual webathon. Published by the 501(c)3 nonprofit Reason Foundation, all donations are tax deductible and help us cover the costs of producing Reason magazine, Reason.com, and Reason TV.
Your generosity was staggering, as we raised over $75,000 in just six days. Different giving levels came with different premiums and those who donated the devilish sum of $666 or above were offered the option of being profiled online.
Some of our most generous donors declined to be interviewed and we're happy to respect their privacy. And we're also very happy to introduce Reason.com readers to a few folks whose contributions make what we do possible. We asked them why they like what Reason does and how they discovered the philosophy of freedom; they gave us the interesting, funny, and thoughtful answers you see below. Check them out.
And you're interested in making a contribution that will help us continue to explore, analyze, and argue for a world of "Free Minds and Free Markets," please go here.
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Name: Paul Hagy, Jr.
Occupation: Information Technology (I/T) Systems Acceptance Testing
Age: 45
Location: West Chester, PA
How would you describe your politics? I have been a Republican since I was 18 and eligible to vote. I voted straight party and never gave it much thought until recently. Now I am a reformed neocon. I joined the Libertarian party in 2011. I am now a Ron Paul supporter and believe that our founding fathers would have been Libertarians. I am still registered as a Republican so I can vote in the primaries here in Pennsylvania.
How long have you had them? My Libertarian views and belief in small government and liberty and the constitution is something I have always believed in, it just took me some time to find the right party. At some point the Republicans had the same beliefs.
How long have you been reading Reason? I have been reading Reason for one year. Now I have extended my subscription for an additional two years.
What introduced you to the magazine/website? My finding Reason started when I found Mike Church on my Sirius/XM radio. He showed me how both parties were both big government types and introduced me a whole new world. He was interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano on Freedom Watch. I started watching more often and Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch also appeared as guests. I also saw a commercial for the magazine while watching Stossel. When I saw a link to the Reason.com on the Libertarian Party website I subscribed.
What do you like most about it? I like that the articles actually make sense and they point out the ridiculousness and silliness of both parties and the establishment. It is informative and points out where we have lost our liberties or at least where they are being infringed upon without really knowing about it. We give up a little here and there, usually in the name of keeping us safe; Another new world was opened.
Each month I find something I like. I guess the first thing I turn to is the Citings page. I enjoy the short quick articles. It is a good warm-up.
That is to say, why do you consider it something to which it is worth donating your hard-earned money? I donate because I believe in the message and want to keep the message coming to my mailbox so I can share it with others. I now am hoping to find a new career where I can continue to learn and make a contribution. Doing what you like is not like working at all.
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Wait, are you saying that Libertarians are mostly middle-aged white men who work in fields requiring little-to-no interpersonal skills? Color me shocked!
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I take you missed the comparison of our rational vs. emotional scores some months back.
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That I did! I only started paying attention to the commentariat over the last couple months.
However, I think I can hazard a guess over which score was higher.
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I only started paying attention to the commentariat over the last couple months.
You picked a bad couple of months!
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Months? Try days.
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Hey what can of smart ass answer is...
...ah what the hell. Guilty as charged!
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And I hope my donation was well spent: buffing wax for the Jacket or a snazzy new sweater for Matt.
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Actually, my job requires excellent interpersonal skills. I have to corral engineers and herd them all in the correct direction. Now, this requires a skill set that is almost completely inapplicable anywhere else, but it is an interpersonal skill.
Depending on how closely you think engineers approximate people, anyway.
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"I'm a people person, dammit! A people person!!"
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I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
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So you just have pretty women stand wherever you don't want them to go?
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+1
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The HR department has to be good for something.
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Hey, I'm only thirty. But yeah, the rest applies.
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Define "middle age", "white", "man", and "interpersonal skills".
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And "field". What is a "field"?
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A place to play baseball?
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A field is a ring whose nonzero elements form a commutative group under multiplication.
Clearer ?
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A field is an excellent place for standing. For example, "that fellow is out standing in his field".
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My friend Polly Nomial was lost there. When she was found, even with years of real analysis and regression she could not derive what had happened.
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As people who claim to have fiscal acumen Libertarians sure like to throw money away by supporting no-chance 3rd party candidates and terrible Libertarian rags.
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reason is not a Libertarian rag.
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If you try to use it as rag you get the nastiest paper cuts. Stick to newspaper.
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It's because of that fiscal acumen that we have disposable income. One has to do something with one's vast wealth besides hire children to polish monocles.
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One has to do something with one's vast wealth besides hire children to polish monocles.
Wait what?! HIRE children? I thought we were supposed to kidnap them from Asian slums and keep them as slaves. At least that is the way that I have been doing it.
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No, Marshall, free and voluntary exchange, remember? You'd be surprised how little most starving orphans will accept if you throw in three crusts of bread a day. That coupled with the terrible math skills and the inability to fully understand contract terms gets you the same benefits without the negative connotations of 'slavery' and 'kidnapping'.
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Kidnapping and slavery--that's so 2011!
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You actually go there and snatch them yourself? I hire people to do that kind of gruntwork.
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Wait. You hire people for the gruntwork?
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I think it's a pyramid model. You have to kidnap/brainwash/enslave the first minion yourself, but then he goes out and procures the second, then together they get two more, then the four of them get four more, etc.
Unless, of course, you are lucky enough to inherit your minions. Damn estate taxes.
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HCWIC* should find another place to post, then.
*Head Cunt What In Charge
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So it's like the welfare state then?
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Black man, working in a field that required interpersonal skills. But, I can't say you're wrong 'cause you did say 'most."
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And Matt Welch also wrote something last fall that was astoundingly good, better than I realized his stuff is, as I spend a lot of time reading Hit and Run and readers' comments.
lolz
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Those who aren't listed here, for privacy or what-have you, we love you just as much.
Shouldn't you love us more?
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"Me ruv you rong time."
They all say that.
The Almanian will expect to be in the next listing....put me right after Suki.
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I'm a big donor (well, I'm big, and I donate my thoughts) who appreciates the anonymity.
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I can't believe no one mentioned how much better Reason was when VP was around.
Maybe they were just being polite.
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Objectivist Diana Hseih says thaton her blog.
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I guess I was out of town when the phone rang.
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"I'd say Citings and Brickbats are my favorite sections, just because they're short enough to read in the john, much like the Playboy Advisor, only without the sex and advice."
Give him a column
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I reason is discriminating against readers that didn't contribute.
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Y'all couldn't even find one. single. chick? Nary a one? At all? Anywhere?
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That donated? Or that hangs out here with the lumpen commentariat?
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The entry for page five says: Bill (and Kathy). That's either a guy and a chick or a single hermaphrodite. NTTAWWT.
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Shit that won't sell in the free market has to rely on charity. Fucking bums.
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At least Reason takes zero taxpayer dollars, you stupid twatwaddler.
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Was my photo really that repulsive, Lucy? Or did you just lose it?
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Poor baby, I'll put it on my blog
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He's hot. Love a man with a beard. Though it is hard to see is lips in all that.
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Uh oh. Did I? It's entirely possible. If you're one of the people I emailed and want yer mug up here, email me, please.
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rather has a blog??
/snark
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Gillespie you magnificent bastard I bought your book. Don't we get any lover or pity?
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did you read it?
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I confess. I did read it as well.
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I own two but both were sent to me free by the Reason Foundation. I only read one of them, however.
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send the other to me, i can't buy it here in china ;)
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and by that i mean, i'll send you something in exchange for it
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Didn't a bunch of people pool together to buy a profile of Warty? Where's our Warty profile?
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I thought it was for STEVE SMITH.
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Do not ponder me too deeply, lest you wart as well.
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More like Wartye, amirite?
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We need to find him before the Lycans do!
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In all honesty, I thought I was sponsoring a sad Eritrean child covered in flies, but in my drunkenness, I clicked the wrong link.
I did enjoy that one.
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Me too, me too.
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A geek parade!
Thanks!
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Abolish the wages system
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Neither of the Koch Brothers made the list? How odd.
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Thank you, good sirs.
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um... wtf... so there are no women that read Reason???? oh, right, theres (Kathy)... well thank goodness for that otherwise I would have thought I was the only Reason-reading woman in alive....
