C & J: Tuesday

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE'

A Word?

There's a list of literally thousands of reasons why America's coolest people depend on Daily Kos every day. And given that PolitiFact just rated the previous sentence "Pants On Fire," you know it must be, at minimum, "Mostly True."

There's also a long list of reasons why it would be a wise and warm-hearted decision on your part to invest in a Daily Kos subscription for yourself or as a gift to a fellow Kossack. But a comment I read yesterday is a thousand times more poignant than any list:

Cheers to the good folks on Kos who keep me sane during difficult days like these...I read countless diaries and comments that move me, inspire me, make me fight for a better future, make me smile....thank you. All.
---GreenMtnState

That's it. That's us. That---^^^^up there^^^^---in 40 plain-spoken words in the voice of Morgan Freeman (that's how I hear it, anyway) summing up the Great Orange Satan. Beautiful.

As I understand it, internet advertising is getting so micro-carved-up that it's now more challenging to raise the revenue needed to keep DKos firing on all cylinders. Think of it as our own fiscal curb/slope, except we lack the authority to raise taxes on billionaires. So now Daily Kos---to coin a phrase---depends on the generosity of viewers like you.

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True Fact: This site was supposed to be called
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And as usual, C&J starts below the fold...