Christmas Morning
Thank you all so much for your kind contributions. I am quite overwhelmed. All I want now for Christmas is well … Fitzmas. I knew the readers and writers of the left blogosphere were top shelf, super smart, generous and kind. What I didn’t realize was how brave you are: you must realize that the NSA Shift Supervisor assigned to this blog is harried beyond belief today tracking all those transactions, some of them from …. overseas. Merry Christmas, NSA supervisor.
Special thanks to the Mensches Who Saved Christmas, my fellow bloggers who linked to my post yesterday and sent readers over here, some of whom said “I’ve never read your blog, but here’s some money anyway, because (fill in the blank) told me I should.” Now that’s clout. Democrats take heed:
Jane at Firedoglake, Jeralyn at Talk Left, TBOGG, The Cunningrealist, Dave at Seeing the Forest, Kevin at Catch, A Tiny Revolution, Kevin at Lean Left, Fallen Monk and various commenters were kind enough to put out the word on the their blogs and in comment threads throughout the blogosphere. (Perhaps others who I failed to catch as well.) It’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever done for me. And I mean that.
And thanks especially to Atrios, my blogfather, for using his valuable real estate to exhort readers to send me turkee. There are Democratic candidates out there who envy me today.
Thanks also to Sean-Paul over at the Agonist and Jake and Ellwood’s dad, who heard my plaintive cry and bought ads. Kos and Jerome too. Click through, people. It’ll be worth your while.
I will be sending you all individual thanks, of course, but there are quite a few of you so it will take a little time. (High class problem, eh?) I will also compile all the great advice and criticism about the site and will take it into account as I contemplate a redesign. Thanks for taking the time to let me know your thoughts and sending me your great graphic ideas. And thanks also to my pal (you know who you are) for insisting that I do this even though I was reluctant.
Finally, many of you requested a snail mail address and here it is:
Digby’s Hullabaloo
2801 Ocean Park Blvd.
Box 157
Santa Monica, Ca 90405
Checks can conveniently be made out to Digby’s Hullabaloo, as well. I have also been reliably informed that some of the Paypal problems may be related to stale old cookies. A few people have said that they had better luck when they cleared out their cache.
Thanks again for all of your donations and especially your kind words. They mean more to me than you will ever know.
d
Update:
More Mensches Who Saved Christmas:
John at Crooks And Liars
My good friend Peter Daou
Ian at BopNews
Da Man: James Wolcott
The fabulous Julia!
Matt at MYDD
The great Tom Tomorrow
Pastor Dan at Street Prophets
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