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Stay Tuned for Reason's Webathon-Telethon, Today From 2-4 pm ET!

Matt Welch | 12.5.2012 1:25 PM

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As we have been reminding you these past two days, we are in the midst of our annual week-long fundraising Webathon, in which we ask you, dear readers, for a little tax-deductible scratch to support the 501(c)3 nonprofit foundation that makes our journalism (and much else besides) possible. As the graphic over at the top right of this page illustrates, we are nearing 20 percent of our goal of netting 800 donations, for which you can receive everything from a free gift subscription to a lunch with Nick Gillespie to your very own personal tile at Reason's new L.A. headquarters.

And starting at 2 pm ET today, you can watch and contribute to a possibly gruesome experiment in technology, transparency, and free-range ad-libbing, as we launch our first-ever Webathon Telethon! Here's how it will work:

Come back to this space beginning at 2 to watch a live-stream of myself, Nick Gillespie, Kennedy, and a series of Reason all-stars talk about our work, our future projects, and our dreams. WHILE WE ARE ON AIR, and even before, we are happy to take on, read, ridicule, and/or pantomime any and all questions and messages you would like to share with our group audience. You can tweet your questions & comments (preferably while indicating your giving level!) to our @reason account; do likewise at our Facebook page, or send us an email at telethon@reason.com.

See you in a half-hour!

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  1. sarcasmic   13 years ago

    No?

  2. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

    I want you to hold up today’s USA Today to confirm that this is being done live and not on tape delay like Stossel. And no lipsynching.

  3. CampingInYourPark   13 years ago

    “…Reason’s new L.A. headquarters”

    The perfect charity

  4. Episiarch   13 years ago

    I have a question: why is Warty still allowed to post here?

    1. Warty   13 years ago

      I want to know this too. Seriously.

      1. Episiarch   13 years ago

        I didn’t ask the question as a joke. I really want to know. Of course, I should ask the same question about myself.

        1. Warty   13 years ago

          Yeah. Unlike you, I’ve never been cussed at by a contributor. Yet.

          1. Episiarch   13 years ago

            I was? Refresh my memory. I only remember this.

            1. Warty   13 years ago

              Terry Michael counts, you dick. Stop othering him.

              1. Episiarch   13 years ago

                Oh, you mean when he sent me this:

                “You are just a garden variety idiot. It is stunning how disgusting you are, whoever you are, hiding behind your cloak of anonymity.”

                Good times. I like being a garden variety idiot. And being stunningly disgusting, too. But my cloak is a Cloak of Charisma, damn it!

                1. Warty   13 years ago

                  +1 CHR Cloak of Dickishness

            2. Groovus Maximus   13 years ago

              Ken Shultz| 1.8.08 @ 3:36PM |#

              Kerry Howley,

              I occasionally win a thread, and when I do, I don’t do it like Episiarch did, and it’s not your place to award threads anyway.

              I’d hate to think I was competing to win that.

              Seriously!

              …besides, Ruthless won the thread.

              I thought this was quite choice. -D

              1. Warty   13 years ago

                Oh, Ken.

              2. Episiarch   13 years ago

                Ken was a cunt even then. Imagine that.

                1. nicole   13 years ago

                  Sad. You totally won that thread. And I miss Kerry.

  5. hamilton   13 years ago

    Two words: Custom Monocle giveaways.
    Three words.
    Four words actually: HampersandR Branded monocle giveaways.

    The greenbacks will flock like geese.

  6. GILMORE   13 years ago

    starting at 2 pm ET today, you can watch and contribute to a possibly gruesome experiment in technology, transparency, and free-range ad-libbing, as we launch our first-ever Webathon Telethon!

    Needs moar disabled-Warty in a electric wheelchair pleading for donations.

  7. GILMORE   13 years ago

    Needs moar Burt Reynolds in a tuxedo

  8. Archduke Pantsfan   13 years ago

    Will there be cake?

    1. hamilton   13 years ago

      “We were told there would be punch and pie?”

  9. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

    Can I have a kidney? Kidney donations were better when Postrel was in charge.

  10. Bardas Phocas   13 years ago

    There is no doubt that I will donate — eventually.
    I’m just waiting for the Reason staff to grovel more.

    I do this with my alma mater. I don’t really care about the funding of a government subsidized higher educational dinosaur institution, but getting the fundraisers to squirm and agree lapdog like to my stupid utterances (which my useless family and friends refuse to do) is worth a check for few thousand.

  11. sarcasmic   13 years ago

    OMG they wrote a book?!?

  12. sarcasmic   13 years ago

    Douche of the day?

    Olbermann much?

  13. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

    That second window at the bottom makes me wonder if this is a webchat. Can they see me right now?

    1. Archduke Pantsfan   13 years ago

      yes.

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