The day Tom Sullivan joined Hullabaloo
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Happy Hollandaise this year. As always, I’m incredibly grateful for your support.
I’m also incredibly grateful for Tom Sullivan, the man who writes two elegant and important posts here each morning, 7 days a week without fail. While I’m still sleeping out here on the west coast, Tom has already started the day with fresh insights, good humor and principled, meaningful analysis of our chaotic political scene. And then he goes out and works on organizing North Carolina into the blue state it’s meant to be.
I’d met Tom and his lovely wife at Netroots Nation years ago and we hit it off right away. But when I came across a great post on his old blog Scrutiny Hooligans I realized that I really needed him over here. I asked him to fill in for me for a few days and the rest is history. I cannot thank him enough. There is never a day that I’m, not reminded how lucky I am that he said yes that day.
As you no doubt realize, this is not exactly a big money enterprise. When I moved over to WordPress a couple of years ago I made the decision not to run ads anymore. There was a cost to that but I just felt that we are all bombarded with them all the time and I just wanted a nice, clean blog without a lot of bells and whistles. In recent years as people have suggested that I move to a Substack, I have balked because this format allowed for several articles a day without crowding anyone’s email boxes.
And yes, everything on here remains free of charge for everyone and any support you might want to give is 100% voluntary. I, of all people, know how expensive it is trying to get information on the internet these days without pulling out your wallet. But once a year I do come to you, our faithful readers, and ask that if you are in a position to help me keep this thing going for another year you’ll think about tossing a little something in the old Hullabaloo stocking. I appreciate every one of you either way, but any support you provide keeps the lights on.
We need to stick together folks. This next year is going to be a challenge to our sanity and our emotional well being. If you’d like to contribute to this little corner of the internet, especially now that social media has turned into Mad Max Thunderdome, you can do so via snail mail at the address on the left column or with the buttons below:
And Happy Hollandaise everyone!