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Respectfully, Christmas is the wrong time of year to be hitting on us for money.
Also, have we won in Libya yet?
I was thinking that, as well. But not respectfully.
Last year it was pre Turkey Day, as I recall. The cash flowed like yams then.
The cash flowed like yams Mexican and Chinese babies' blood at a Reason cruise then
Fixed.
Idea for the next Reason Cruise: Arabian Sea, east of Somalia. Armed Cruise ship. Fully armed patrol boats. Vigilante justice against piracy.
reason takes the owner's share. Can we get Patri Friedman to issue us a letter of marque to make it legal?
Dibs on the chaingun!
Bah humbug!
I see where you are coming from, but Christmas is sort of a traditional time for charitable giving as well as buying lots of consumer goods to appease your spouses and children for another year.
Christmas The end of the fiscal year is sort of a traditional time for charitable giving deductions.
C'mon, man. We're libertarians. We don't do nice.
All seriousness aside, Tim's right, of course. I managed to scrape together enough money to increase my donation...but how about you do this in the spring or summer? Then I FER SURE have money to give.
Anyway, for a magazine called Reason....good luck with the begathon!
It probably doesn't help that its a GOP primary either. Next year, when Paul's out, coffers will be full again in the libertarian churches.
It looks like someone needs to cut spending to live within their means.
@Reason, be in the lookout for Glenn Beck delivering my donation. His people told my people he has been turned away several times already.
Let's face it, the only reason any of us donates is to see our name on that banner. I'm only disappointed whoever did "The Golden Girls Turned Our Sons Into Homosexuals" didn't take into account the banner using LIFO.
I don't see any banner. You bastards can forget about any money from me.
Rest assured, it's pretty awesome.
Or Yoda did it.
When I saw that at first I thought it was Yoda-ized but then realized it didn't quite work that way.
That's why I gave.
Fine, I donated. Now I want that class on alt-text given to the staff like I requested.
I look at that graph and think; you guys have no right to criticize the government for its deficit spending.
I'd like a libertarian president.
I'm sure this is inadvertent, but if you read the blog title and then quickly glance at the accompanying graph, you may be sending the wrong message. Only when you carefully read the graph's title do you realize that's not REASON's spending and revenue...
I had the same thought.
Plus, holy crap, Reason is spending over 20% of GDP?
I thought the same, and immediately echoed Suki's 9:49 thought.
I didn't know there was going to be swag. Now I feel like an idiot for donating through CFC. All that got me was a bunch of point papers in my inbox.
Sounds like a very good plan to me dude. Wow.
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Hey, if I send you guys some money, is someone gonna write a hysterical expos? about Reason accepting money from White Supremacists?
Pot, Kettle, etc.
I'm always mystified when some Odious Group donates money to a politician, so the politician gives it back.
How is it that taking money from Bad People is worse than giving money to Bad People?
It woudl make a lot more sense if they gave it to a group opposing the bad group. Or just kept it.
Seriously. I'd think that this would be the perfect opportunity for the politician to publicly give the shaft to odious groups.
Glad to see I didnt miss the last day. Your site, publication and videos are second to none. Most everything I consume from your writers is well executed, honest and insightful. And much of it (like Radley Balko's investigations) have real-world effects on the lives of the truly innocent. Not just some homeless bullshit pulitzer-baiting fluff piece that you'd expect from the local news.
Plus you execute it all with a non-partisan middle-finger and a smirk, which is just about as goddamn American as apple pie. Keep up the great work!
+1 Love it. Couldn't have said it better myself.