As you all know, my contract with PJM expired April 1, leaving me without any income from the site. Rather than go to a pay or subscription model, I’m content at this time to hold quarterly fundraisers with the hope that I can match the previous income level (which was itself a step down from my initial agreement with PJM).
— And this is the very first of those quarterly fundraisers.
And what better time to hold one? After all, I’ll be gone for a week or so (my seminar in Chicago is fast approaching, and I have to prepare), so all the little snotty comments that routinely arise about how I do this solely for money, etc., will miss their mark.
Timing, you see.
Nuance.
Amazon discontinued its Honor System, I believe. Which leaves only PayPal (quite secure these days, rest assured). For your convenience, you’ll find the button located on the left of your screen.
As always, you are under no obligation to give me a damn thing. If you decide to do so, thanks in advance. If you don’t or can’t contribute, I understand; maybe I can apply for some sort of bailout — if I promise to pay myself union wages, and insist that I let myself retire early with a full pension and benefits.
Because yes we can!
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update 3 With 4 days left I’m at about 60% of where I hope to be at the end of each quarter. Thanks so much to all of you who have contributed!
Here ya go, Jeff. Ain’t much, but it’s a start.
I’ll chip in part of my gitter-cleaning ill-gotten (& gleefully tax-free) gains on Wednesday, brother.
*gutter*
I’m afraid to find out what a “gitter” might be or how one cleans it.
Have you considered applying for a government grant? Seriously.
Feeling an urge to a touch of bulimia, anyone? Need a little stimulus to get the regurgitation flowing? Try out a bit of Nancy Pelosi interviewed by Judy Woodruff at PBS. Don’t worry about that backflow though, Nancy will be seeing to your health care needs.
Horowitz, Frum, LGF et al. get their headline out of the Politico: “Anti-Obama talk worries some on right”. Man those Journo’s loves them their “some”.
At least the margins of your blog are not cluttered with crap anymore. It was strange when you took your fishin trip, I actually focused on what those ads were. God they sucked.
Unfortunately, I’m snotless at the moment. Pine pollen doesn’t affect my allergies, and the stuff that does apparently has yet to blossom.
Have you considered applying for a government grant? Seriously.
I have it on good authority that the cash will come pouring in if you include the magic code word “global warming.” Better yet, you don’t have to subject your data and methodologies to peer scrutiny.
BECAUSE OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD!
Health care is a right, not a privilege.
Then I’m filing suit against my doctor for daring to charge me money for what I am entitled to, the bastard.
What is an appropriate contribution to the site? What do other people normally throw in? Jeff, how much would the site need from each of its regulars?
ok i did it and I think by jiggering with my paypal I am just happyfeet – tell me if it tells you my double super secret identity so I know how it works … I kinda wanted to stay super super anonymous to where I’m not happyfeet even like how Amazon did it but I was too lazy to make a whole new email account that wasn’t happyfeet or that kid what plays happyfeet on the internet… just a sec… I want to check something… ok – also I made a donation with my Amex which I think should also be just happyfeet – let me know – last night I was in my paypal account and I noticed the interest rate on it was stupid low so I moved the paypal monies to a more better account so I only had a little left in there and you were kinda getting cheated so that’s why the two transactions. okey dokey then.
Yours is a voice we’d hate to lose especially with so many on the right concerned … concerned, I tell you … about our lack of nuance. After all, none of them are fat, smoke cigars or have former drug problems. Right? Of course, few of them have multi-million dollar media contracts, either, but that’s beside the point under the Big Tent.
Time to pony up a few bucks.
Huh, people actually donate to help you keep blogging? I wonder what that would be like.
Christopher, if we donate, we are officially allowed to call ourself a “minion.” And, there’s the decoder ring with a minimum donation of $20.
You’ll get ALL the jokes.
Not to worry McGehee, I’m snotful enough for both of us. Oddly, I seem to be developing an alergy to hops. I drink a couple of IPAs and my sinuses go wild. I guess I’ll just have to be happy with the cheap stuff! !$^%@@#$!!!
In the mean time I guess I don’t need the cash, so I’m contributing to your delinquency.
A decoder ring? Well dayum, I’ll be waiting by the mailbox! All things considered though, pitchforks might be more appropriate, and I’ve already got mine, thanks!
Somehow, I’ve a feeling Jeff will still be here long after PJ Media is gone. BTW, Jeff, have you considered running several sidebar ads advertising Protein Wisdom? Seems like most of the PJ Media sidebar ads I see advertise PJ Media, which must pay a ton of money :D
I’m thinking Simon is following the business model outlined by Robert Heinlein in his story about the guy who worked at the courthouse polishing the brass cannon. He finally got fed up with his job, bought a brass cannon, and went into business for himself.
*points at new moniker* btw, when do i get that decoder ring? not sure i need it to read the site, but i have outfits it would def look cool with.
When Trenchtown man stop laugh and block-off traffic
Then them wheel and pop off and dem start clap it
With the pin file dung and it a beat drop it
Police come inna jeep and them cant stop it
Some say them a playboy, a playboy rabbit
Funnyman a get dropped like a bad habit
So nobody pose tuff if you don’t have it
Rastafari stands alone!
[You know in Russia they whisked a million works of art out into the woods. If you have to, Wild Dog dude, I’ll make sure you have you a good sharp ground poking stick, cause some of ’em arts, they gotta be worth more than the sun by now.
Just a thought. With a precious few oh God what we could prove, artistically speaking. And them chicks, too.]
Welcome to Jamdown, poor people a dead at random
Political violence, can’t done! Pure ghost and phantom, the youth
Dem get blind by stardom
Now the Kings Of Kings a call
Old man to Pickney, so wave unno hand if you with me
To see the sufferation sicken me
Them suit no fit me, to win election dem trick we
Den dem don’t do nuttin at all
I’m going to my local arts center later. Mi frin he da dreadlocks man an im showin’ ‘is fat-matic dis night. Mi tell ’em Jeff sain what’n why’n lif be like dis an dat an why we need’n carries the xttra magazine in we’m back pock’ts always stay’n redy for a’ospital hard ride. Some we mudder. Some we let go. All’m want to do! Bong, bong, bang.
Slide back, trombone.
I read Russell Banks and saw Marked for Death and The Harder They Come. Plenty for me.
And that’s only because Eddie Grant and Musical Youth didn’t teach me the lesson the first time.
I immina throw down dah c-note. Jeff ay smart rite boy.
N’er in mi Jamtown lif see mi a Wally bread who an’t has dim dat easy hundred and drink’n it away.
Yu posin’ lik ’em gold statcho but war’n da iron shirt and tin skirt, no.
Givs or drops’n slink.
You mean watched The Harder They Come?
Cineamtically well done, indeed.
dude way too racist white boy
thor
did your father like jim crow? not the drinking stuff by the way
only a pothead would think datttttt
And router’s curious mother hated Jim C..
Hit the jar or feel mi trickle down, weak cheeks.
I actually quite liked the flick. The only feature that director ever did, if I’m remembering correctly. Very 70s. Very raw feel to it.
Very Spaghetti Western blaze of glory ending. The writer wrote some other nifty plays and such. trvor something, if I recall.
Trevor
I’ve decided it’s time to dodge Baracky’s new cigarette tax and put that cash toward better social purposes, so I’m switching to smoking dope. Fuck the children! (Generally, not one at a time.)
*clang*
Trevor Talks to Kids!
Tonight’s viewing: Two-lane Black Top and Real Life.
Maybe This is Spinal Tap or the Bad News Bears if I’m up late enough.
I think I’ll watch Shine A Light again. Good flick even if Bill Clinton was the host and it’s comforting to know that I could live to be 200 and never look as old as Keith Richards. I’ve a feeling it’s not the make, it’s the mileage..
#32
May I recomend,”Vanishing Point”. The original, not the remake.
Just don’t be sharing those black men doing white girl videos with your little friends, Rusty. If your principal calls again I won’t be telling him no stories that them videos were mine just to save your ass from detention again.
Boys, they can’t stop diddling their pee-johnnies for a minute!
I used to have a killer poster in my dorm of Jimmy Cliff from the Harder They Come. I bought it from a shop on the boardwalk in Wildwood, NJ. The reason I remember it was that the girl behind the counter was wearing a fringed half-shirt with a picture of a caterpillar humping a french fry. I thought that was hilarious. Still do.
It was also the first time I saw under-boob out in the wild, and that, according to my therapist, is why I have a fetish for chicks who’ll knife you for a Newport.
God I miss the 80’s.
It was also, evidently, the last decade in which Villanova could hit free throws.
My Wildwood NJ days were in the very early 70s. I learned to swim at around that time in one of the hotel pools.
Where’s the thermometer picture?
Boss,
Payday is Wednesday, so I should be able to hit the Paypal then.
Jeff, I really think if you just set up some AdSense ads, or added your own set of affilliate banners you would make something.
Check out Commission Junction (CJ.com) or ClickBank.com and see about their programs.
A few ads can be gravy.
I will pony up in a day or so.
For affiliate marketing, Shareasale is a very well run company. I use them.
Keith Richard is a Poseur. Rich fuck and all. Shane McGowan is the real fucking thing.
a fetish for chicks who’ll knife you for a Newport
A fetish? All guys don’t have this?
But I question the timing here. The first time you saw underboob, was at a time when you had a dorm room? I hope you were a bad, bad, bad little boy and that you were in military school.
It was also, evidently, the last decade in which Villanova could hit free throws.
Reversion to the mean is a bitch.
I couldn’t even watch. I’m one of those Philly fans who think that good things will happen if you stop watching the bad things. Didn’t work this time.
Oh, and Jeff, I’m unemployed at the moment, but since I just learned I passed the Bar, I thing I’ll drop some coin in your tin cup.
Congratulations! I hope you use your powers for good.
I gave a hunnert. I really want this site to stay open.
Jeff Goldstein could make, in relative terms, a shit-load of money doing something other than this, if money were what he were all about. Clearly, it’s not. It’s like a stipend in graduate school. The money keeps you alive and breathing while you do your work.
Goldstein, are you going write a book?
hi- iree-rupert murduch-ee on the right hand side rude boy
i would like to send jeff a lincoln
[penny wise/pound foolish]
but my credits been
whomp-bomp a lu la
and my charms been popped…
what’s a po’ boy to do?
got cash for jeff’s trash/who can snap the buttons
problem
snausagle@yahoo.com
Ah, in the early 70’s it was Brigantine, in the 80’s it was the Block that Rocks. ‘course I was slumming from one island north, but if you were going to get the shit kicked out of you for wearing a belt with little whales on it around your madrass shorts, Wildwood was the place.
Freedom, it was underboob in the wild. It was free, didn’t have to pay for it, just hanging out in public. Muffy, Buffy, and Missy didn’t do that. Still don’t if Chad, Douglas, and Michelle are to be believed.
So, uh, if we accept gov’t health care money does that mean our pay will then be determined by government as well? If the principle of TARP is to be consistently applied, I mean.
Money soon, J
I was going to buy my kid a new pair of shoes but I donated instead.
The way I see it, new shoes for my kid might keep his feet safe while he runs but aren’t going to do anything to stop the slow, steady march of fascism over the US Constitution and all of our freedoms.
…
See what I did there?
Yeah! Yeah you did!
Uh! Uh! Uh!
Had to make sure you got yours before Uncle Fuckin’ Sam got his. I can handle IRS agents and their audits, but the idea of the ‘dillo being homeless is unacceptable. Buy the little guy some of the good stuff from me.
You know you’re on a winner when you’re getting paypal hits from Down Under. I didn’t hear about the PJm thing. Are they “going respectable”? Shame on them.
prariemain, Jeff has outsourced his drug problems to this little fellow with scales and an insatiable appetite for Modern Chemistry….
Shane!
I’d definitely rather be Keith.
Jeff,
What happened to the Outlaw t-shirts? Your buy stuff page is in need of some new life.
Dancing ‘dillo coffee mugs.
i already have two mugs. I wants a dillo hoodie.
If you’re tapped out and you’re going to a Tea Party on the 15th, maybe mention protein wisdom to some of the cooler people you meet.
Mention it’s funny. People like the funny.
But cash on the barrel head is better still, obviously.
there’s time enough to get a pw t-shirt I bet.. I have one of them too but I think it was unsanctioned… it’s the leftist boilerplate one…
“If you’re tapped out and you’re going to a Tea Party on the 15th, maybe mention protein wisdom to some of the cooler people you meet.
Mention it’s funny. People like the funny.”
What goes better with Tea Parties then T-Shirts (especially funny ones;)
mine one also has a dinosaur on it. It’s very cool, really.
“there’s time enough to get a pw t-shirt I bet”
That’s a nice thought and good advertising, especially in an environment with thousands of other conservatives… but what’s Jeff make on that? As a percentage?
You could probably give him a fiver and he’d net more.
Not sure.
oh… it’s pennies I’m sure. They’re 100% cotton though. But me I want an outlaw hoodie. Me and my outlaw hoodie we would have adventures and we wouldn’t take no guff from nobody. Mr. Bonesteel would look at us and think… now that’s what I’m talking about.
I gave up cognac for Lent; so here ya go.
Many moons ago, I tended bar with a shared tip jar. When someone dropped in some paper, we rang a bell hanging from the ceiling.
Ding, ding, ding!, for the fine people throwing in the cash.
There’s a leftist boilerplate shirt?
I have had a Cafe Press store for years. I have never received any money from it, I don’t think.
I don’t remember making a leftist boilerplate shirt.
I think I have maybe the only one. I think that’s when I got one of my mugs too.
clothes are for capitalist pig dog kids
uniforms are for silly rabbits
oink oink bark bark I think
I should make those, though, eh?
if i could say a few words..
i’d..uhh…be a better speaker…
trix are for teenage wards of the state..
taxes for them daddies
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if i could say a few words..
i’d..uhh…be a better speaker…
trix are for teenage wards of the state..
taxes for them daddies
Fools, taxes are for the thee, not for me.
yes – the boilerplate ones rock… but my outlaw hoodie I’ve really got my heart set on
tributes are for brutes
[making fast cartoon feet off ground spin revolutions]
i flee the decree
it’s coming dude just let me pay my taxes first
Lefty boilerplate is funny, but not so appropriate now with Obama in the White House. Honestly, a PW shirt would be good because it would give you free advertising. I’d wear it to the gym, especially if it was one of those cute ones that actually fit, and not a boy shirt in girl sizes.
Jeff, of course, I don’t do paypal, so you’re going to have to shoot me your addy (again) and I’ll start setting a bit aside. I work one-month ahead, so it may not be until May first, but I think that would still be quicker than the last time I sent you $$.
Oh, and in regards to those April showers … are you talking snow showers? I got six inches overnight. Have to dig the snow blower out.
“Honestly, a PW shirt would be good because it would give you free advertising.”
I agree. I’d buy one.
Also you can’t go wrong with bunnies.
Amazon tip jar is gone, huh? I guess, I’ll try this PayPal, thing. Carin, why don’t you do PayPal? Is there a problem with it? I’ll second happyfeet’s Outlaw hoddie suggestion, too. That would be a purchase.
Well, because I don’t like to use credit cards.
Jeff,
I think I’ve still got your address from the last time I sent a check. Is it still the same? I don’t want to do the PayPal thing – there is a less than zero chance I would ever give out a bank account number to them, and I don’t want to hit the credit card.
BTW, you should consider a PO box for folks like me. You know, skeptics who work in IT and know what can go wrong…
Or maybe you can go wrong with bunnies.
Tell ya what I’m gonna do, Sonny, just ’cause I like the cut of your jib…
Congratulations on your freedom…
http://www.anorak.co.uk/media/206447.html
Jeff
donated today
Let the market decide.
Let 100 flowers bloom.
I put my money in over the weekend.
Hey Jeff,
Ever think about doing an online seminar on intentionalism? Think of it like an advanced class – an opportunity for a little extra interaction. Perhaps we could do a write up on what we learn and you could comment on how well we’re grasping the concepts? I think I’d pay for such a thing.
I’d wear a “Churchill (Ward) Sucks” T-shirt, maybe with a picture of Chutch on the back.
I just sent you all of my beer money for the month. I’m going to have to borrow against next month’s beer money to make up for the difference, but I should be able to leverage that with a credit default swap indirectly backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. In fact, I think I’ve just created more wealth in this process, so I’m going to give myself a bonus to buy more beer. Thanks Jeff, for helping me to create this surplus!
I had said i was going to contribute monthly, but since you are doing quarterly I just set 3 months worth in. Will do the same every quarter.
If we manage to get to the Lansing Tea Party on April 15th I’m going to make up a T-shirt with Protein Wisdom on it to wear, using those ink-jet transfer things. Now if the weather would just get Spring like instead of this snow.
Jeff deleted the We Got Mail post.
An observation, not a complaint.
ok well here is a song what is apropos of nothing and ect,,,
Ding, ding, ding!!!
Have you received a dime from my favorite thor-chaser, wee witless Wusty, yet Jeff?
Maybe coughing up a $100 will shatter his chances of attending summer space camp. Uranus, my anus, a galaxy of anuses, a summer spent staring at poo chutes ain’t cheap, at least not on his allowance, anyway.
Let me know when/if Wusty’s thor-chaser fee has been paid in full.
I’ve never had a male aadmirer before. It’s kinda creepy.
NTTAWWT, Rusty.
The change you are waiting for was sent yesterday. Enjoy! The one trillllllion dollars I sent you was just a start, really, because the evils of the Bush administration were deep and long. Much more money will be needed to heal America from its long string of stunning success stories. Besides, I put the one trilllllllion dollars on my credit card so I actually didn’t spend any money at all.
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Oh yeah. Everybody give this clown some money.
#101
There is if he talks like Elmer Fudd.
@104 —
That you, daleyrocks?
I would buy a tote bag.
O/T Does any one know if the person who refers to his/herself as Capitulus is Deb Frish. One of the other commenters at Hot Air is suspicious
Jeff, I sent you an email.
Rusty,
That’th a nathty thor ya got there.
I doubt even penithillin is going to help that oozing, puthtules meth.
I think I smell a puddy tat’s taddered pooter. I did! I did!
Suffering Succotash!, I eat a bird, and get a talking turd!
Tweety is the biggest money-making looney tune as far as licensing and stuff goes. I think that’s a global stat though so I don’t think it says anything about who we are as a people.
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