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If you have been waiting to renew your Mullings Subscription, now is the time!
This renewal month business isn't as simple as it once was. Used to be that in February I'd start whining about how Mullings is a real business and how advertising doesn't pay the bills and how important having an independent voice is to the process and why, without YOUR $25, Democracy as we know it was likely to crumble.
Then came the whole Iraq business and the ethics guys at the Department of Defense said I had to extend everyone's subscription for the amount of time I was on their payroll - which turned out to be six months and ... it's a long story which regulars have already heard and new folks don't much care about. That led us to August which is not a good month to do anything, so I decided to make September the big renewal month.
But, this year hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit us at the beginning of September, so I pushed it back to the first of October. But on October 1 it didn't seem as if enough time had gone by since I had shown up in Baton Rouge so I decided on mid-October which, as luck would have it, is today.
If you don't want to plow through the whole hand-wringing plea, click HERE and fill out the subscription form.
Why You Should Be a Paid Subscriber Mullings truly is a real business. It requires paid subscriptions and advertising to continue. Mullings is not a subsidiary of a large corporation. It is the basic building block - the charmed quark for those who took (and stayed awake during) Physics 113 - of the American economy: A small business run by one person.
That person happens to be me, and I happen to love doing it.
Nevertheless, like any business it requires a steady, dependable revenue stream. Or two. A significant portion of the annual revenue necessary comes from Mullings readers who choose to pay $25 to keep the column going.
It's a little like listening to National Public Radio. If you pay their annual fee, you can listen to everything they broadcast. If you don't pay � you can still listen.
Unlike NPR, Mullings receives no income from the public coffers.
It is all up to you. And me.
For those who may be new to Mull World, I do not consider myself to be a journalist. And journalists absolutely don't consider me to be a journalist.
I am a political hack. I am good at it. I am proud of it. Politics is what makes the unique American form of self-governance function. Although it is considered a requirement for reporters and academics to belittle the process; it works more often than not - even when the edges are strained to the breaking point as they were in 1998 and again in 2000.
Mullings is a pointedly Conservative political column. I try not to be mean, but neither do I attempt to be even-handed. I think Liberalism is wrong-headed and I am perfectly happy to point out the faults and blunders of our friends on the Left - just as those on the Left are all too eager to point out what they consider to be our shortcomings.
The secret to understanding my approach is this: I consider those on the Left to be my political opponents; not my mortal enemies.
The columns generally run about 700 words (which is about the length of a standard opinion piece in your newspaper) and comes to your e-mail inbox as a complete column every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Each of those columns is accompanied by a "Secret Decoder Ring" page (SDR) which contains photos, additional links, explanations of obscure references and other things which I find amusing, aggravating or both. There is a link at the bottom of every edition of Mullings page which takes you to the SDR.
The Travelogues are included in the subscription price.
In a normal year - a normal year being defined as one during which I spend exactly zero days in Iraq or any other war zone - each edition of Mullings costs about a dime.
When you consider the amount of material I provide you to beat that Liberal goofball (with whom you have to share an office) over the head with, it is a fantastic bargain on the order of $1.28-a-gallon gasoline.
So, if you don't remember when you were due for renewal, the answer is: If you have never subscribed (or you wish to subscribe on behalf of someone who has never done so) please consider today a good day to do that, as well.
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In addition to the three-days-a-week Mullings column, there are irregular Travelogues which are not unlike the Iraq adventures except they generally don't include stories of people who are actively trying to kill me. At least no one I'm aware of.
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