Friday, August 13, 2010 — Because it’s $5 Friday, we have just donated that amount to Robert Parry’s Consortiumnews.com. Not just because Jonathan Schwarz told us too, although that helped, but mostly because there are not enough people with guts in the news racket, and we can’t afford to lose any more of them.
Because it’s been weeks and weeks since we first decided to remember Consortiumnews.com on $5 Friday, we threw in a little extra to make up for lost time. We still owe Mr. Parry, but it’s a start.
Because Jonathan Schwarz invented Five Dollar Friday, and because he’s a funny guy, and because we’ve been breaking the rules for some years now, reading A Tiny Revolution without having purchased Our Kampf, we finally bought a copy and threw in an extra $5 to reward his inventivness.
And because we’re not made out of money, we stopped there. Despite having less money than when we started this, we feel richer. Go figure.
Speaking of feeling richer, we also printed and distributed another 5,000 + copies of our free newspaper today, which our faithful band of volunteers have by now distributed all over town. And soon we’ll fire off our Digital Edition.