Friday, October 3, 2008—OK, so we didn’t quite get a post up yesterday. We were experiencing a slightly higher-than-normal level of chaos around here. Did the world end? All right, then.

What we’re looking at just to the upper right is a bundle of 50 copies of our Volume 253, No. 1, bearing today’s date. We just completed our 252nd year, and we have hopes of making it through the next.

We’re displaying a bundle of papers to make one point: in a nation going rapidly to hell because the lie to truth ratio is about a million to one, hardly anyone we know is using this technology to fight back.

Our printer sold us that bundle of fifty papers for $3.81.

That’s $0.06 cents a pop — less than a penny a page.

With no corporate gatekeeper saying, “You can’t print that!”

And no internal, institutional requirement to let some professional liar insert “facts” that aren’t true.

A few basic tools: a Mac, the ‘Net, some software, some local advertisers. Some effort, but not all that much …

The one thing we don’t understand about this operation is why almost nobody else (here’s one of our favorite exceptions) takes advantage of these tools.

Ah, well … a few more distribution points to hit. We’re outta here for now.

Meanwhile, here’s the .pdf of our September 29 paper (3.9 MB).