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Mad Max|11.12.09 @ 5:39PM|#
I tell you what - I'll let you get a 10% cut of the profits that the Popes made from the sale of indulgences between 1568 and today.
Mad Max|11.12.09 @ 7:56PM|#
I'm thinking you didn't get the joke.
10% of zero is zero. The Church banned the sale of indulgences in 1567.
|11.12.09 @ 8:01PM|#
Just like the government banned the sale of marijuana decades ago?
All they accomplished was to create a black market in indulgences which provides a steady profit stream for lawless, violent organizations.
|11.13.09 @ 8:29AM|#
Mad Max, I got the joke just fine. I was suggesting that the ban was a result of Luther railing against them. Luther was therefore anti free-market. I believe sir that it was you that missed the joke.
ed|11.12.09 @ 5:43PM|#
I subscribed for 10 years. Does that count for anything? Or is it like Public Radio, when you're only as good as your last contribution, then you stink like Nina Cokieheimer's thong?
|11.12.09 @ 10:55PM|#
Uh, drink?
And I'll be contributing tomorrow. I get paid tonight. I think you guys do a great job. And I love this site.
db|11.12.09 @ 5:43PM|#
I really think you need to stay on message with this campaign. Lobster Girl Forever!
Rimfax|11.12.09 @ 5:50PM|#
His boobs are almost as big as Lobster Girls, yet somehow not as compelling.
|11.12.09 @ 8:04PM|#
Man, nobody even mentioned Lobster Girl in this post and you guys are still commenting on her assets. Apparently Lobster Girl's bust casts a long shadow on this blog.
Suki|11.12.09 @ 9:04PM|#
and hunky free-market congressmen stranded on desert islands.
I thought Matt just took off his glasses at one of those DC theme bars.
CTHORM@IBIS|11.12.09 @ 5:51PM|#
You'll get $25 out of me this year. I'll probably divert my annual donation from Cato to Reason in the future though. You're a rowdier bunch.
|11.12.09 @ 8:06PM|#
That's not really a fair comparison. Reason is a magazine, not a think tank. Now if you compare the Reason Foundation to CATO, I'd bet they're equally stuffy.
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"Please support our efforts by making a (tax-deductible!) donation now."
How do we feel about this?
|11.12.09 @ 6:35PM|#
reason.com and despair.com need to collaborate on a line of government bashing merchandise with catchy slogans.
...profit.
Mister DNA|11.12.09 @ 6:49PM|#
Does asking for donations completely negate the past few weeks of Ayn Rand love?
Just asking...
Inigo Carmine|11.12.09 @ 8:45PM|#
No. A donation is a voluntary (without quotes) transaction. If they sent Nick Gillespie over to your house to beat the crap out of you if you don't donate, that would be another matter.
|11.12.09 @ 8:50PM|#
Obviously she thought it should be legal to give to charity, but I think the point was that Rand opposed charitable giving from a philosophical standpoint.
Anonymity Robot|11.12.09 @ 10:46PM|#
Sorry, I left off a W. I think this may be due to trauma from the last administration. Either that or it has been too long since I saw I's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
|11.12.09 @ 9:45PM|#
Flies don't take up server space and processing power with their brainless comments and then refuse to donate.
|11.12.09 @ 8:47PM|#
Matt's promise of "rewards I cannot legally disclose on television" for a $1000 donation may not be as effective given that a certain former writer specializing in Burmese matters has moved on.
|11.12.09 @ 11:12PM|#
But there's lobster girl. And perhaps as Christmas gets closer, we might get the pillow girl!
Rhywun|11.12.09 @ 9:02PM|#
Finally, some love for those of us who prefer Flake's boobs to the lobster chick's.
|11.12.09 @ 11:13PM|#
Ha ha. Someone donated under the name "END THREADED COMMENTS" but it got truncated so they look like a retard.
That is too fu
BlueBook|11.12.09 @ 11:23PM|#
I'm too cheap to donate precious fiat money, but I'll let you have this crude mockup of a retro cover that could really bring in the new subscribers.
Morris|11.13.09 @ 1:27AM|#
...producing the most interesting, provocative, honest, and good journalism around.
Which is why we desperately need donations to keep this thing afloat. Anybody interested in buying land in Florida?
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