Cheers and Jeers: Monday
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
C&J Annual Fundraiser. For Rent: Vintage 1964 Soul. Slightly warped.
Yep, it's that time again. Your contract on my soul has expired. I am in control of roughly 75 percent of it at the moment, and that number is growing by the hour. Time for humanity to re-up for another year of Cheers and Jeers before it's too late.
For those of you don’t know the story: nine years ago I got fired over the phone by parted ways amicably with my former employer after 14 years. At that time I'd been writing C&J as a hobby to keep me from pursuing my other hobby which was robbing banks. In a turn of events as generous as it was unexpected, the Daily Kos community blogswarmed, took up a collection and, in "Keyboard Kingpin" Kos's immortal words, "bought my soul" for a year.
Every year since then you've allowed me to continue writing this column full-time because of your financial support. For that I thank you from the bottom of my cubicle, which is situated at the precise midway point between the kitchen and the bathroom, allowing me to both grab a beer and take a leak without getting up from my chair, and for that I'd like to thank my personal Feng Shui consultant from the bottom of my 24oz PBR.
If you're in the mood to keep C&J going for another year, I'd be honored to slip a fresh diaper on my head and fresh ink ribbons in my 50 monkeys' typewriters.
Many moons ago, Kos set up PayPal accounts for both one-time donations and recurring monthly donations. The monthly subscriptions are hugely helpful for minimizing the total needed during this annual "pledge week," and I can't thank you enough for supporting C&J throughout the year:
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I know there's been a bit of a kerfuffle over PayPal because of some jerk who co-created it and jumped on the Trump train. I'm sticking with it for two reasons: I don’t want to cause confusion among the significant number of long-term C&J donors who use it, and also because I want to reward PayPal for being one of the earliest companies to push back against the Republican “HB2” LGBT hate law in North Carolina. PayPal actually cancelled a planned facility there, opting to create those 400 jobs in a more fair-minded state. Said CEO Dan Schulman: "Becoming an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable." I appreciate that, especially since it helped lead to Governor McCrory’s timely political demise.
If you're already a C&J monthly subscriber and you want to continue, you don’t have to do anything but feel good about your investment.
Thank you for supporting these weird little columns. I began popping them out in 2003 to maintain my sanity during the Bush years. And, well, here we are in the age of Trump. This time I admit I may need to add some padding to the walls.
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