Back by popular demand, a monthly post wherein I ask you to send me your hard earned money, and certain bloggers make snide comments about my doing it. Because they don’t blog for money, you see. They’re better than that. As they’ll be the first to tell you, with a marked sniff. Luckily, I’m a douche. So pony up. And thank you. **** update: Incidentally, thanks to Sarah R for

Not that it’s at all unusual, but I really did enjoy the brazenness of the lede in this particular Reuters piece, “Boehner Calls for 2-Year Freeze on All Tax Rates”: U.S. House of Representatives Republican leader John Boehner called Wednesday for a two-year freeze on all current U.S. tax rates, including Bush-era tax cuts for the rich set to expire at the end of this year. Here’s the thing, Reuters:

I’ll be honest: to me, the idea of term limits always struck me as a rather statist proposal, in that the underlying theme is a necessary distrust in the electorate and its freedom to make its own choices. To a certain extent, I still feel that way: in theory, term limits are an artificial impediment to the will of the electorate to make their own determinations about who they choose

Or something to that effect. — Which, I’m pretty sure that’s not what Kevin Costner actually said. Let the healing begin! (h/t Geoff)

Yes, I’m following Tim Tebow on Twitter. But I’m doing so while coveting my neighbor’s ass. Like, a lot. God forgive me.