Kiddie Pool Bar brought to you by Bill in Portland Maine
You may think that paddling around in a kiddie pool all day is just fun and play. Well, it's not. It's hard werk producing Cheers & Jeers everyday.
Bill is the only Daily Kos Featured Writer who is paid entirely by his readers. That would be YOU. I remember, back in the day, Bill informed us he needed to find a new job and wouldn't be able to spend any time producing C&J. We all freaked out, none of us could imagine a day without a place to flick peas.
In Bill's own words:
For those of you who are new'ish here: I started writing C&J almost nine years ago in my spare time. Five years ago my boss called from his yacht in Florida and informed me that my services writing commercials for products that didn’t kill most people were no longer needed. Job search looming, I posted a "Ta Ta for Now" note here.
A committee combs through every C&J
before publication to find
and remove signs of intelligence.
The next day, the Daily Kos community swarmed, took up a collection and, in Kos's words, "bought my soul." You've possessed my being for five years now, and I'm thinking that Kosorcisms are awful messy so why not kick this old can down the road for another year. It's what Congress would do, and they're up to, what, nine percent approval now? What could go wrong???
You'll continue getting all those features that you've come to faithfully skim over the years, including the daily puppy pic, the weekly Rapture Index, the Thursday "Molly Ivins Moment," the Friday "Who Won the Week" poll, and the five-year flashbacks that remind us that Bush was even worse than we remember. Plus this year we're counting down the days Joe Lieberman has in office (127) and---best of all---we've added visual aids that illuminate the issues while proving I suck at captions, too!
I've been sending a monthly donation to Billeh for a while now. Glad to do it because his work has a definite value for me. Today I'm increasing my monthly contribution. I hope you'll
up yours, so to speak or start a new contribution to keep Bill from flipping burgers somewhere.
Five years ago Kos was kind enough to set up PayPal accounts for both one-time donations and recurring monthly donations.
One time contribution: click here
$5 monthly contribution: click here
$10 monthly contribution: click here
$20 monthly contribution: click here
To send a check via snail mail, the address is: Bill Harnsberger, 16 Pitt Street, Portland, ME, 04103.
Tip your waitress!
Tip your waitress! And try the veal! Take my wife, please!
Don't quit your day job, Bill! We NEED you!
Little Billeh's Blogathon Pledge Week Schedule:
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