Yesterday and today, we saw a big bump in subscriptions after a late-summer lull. Today was our biggest new subscription day since March! A new member of the Dish writes:
I have been enjoying your blog since 2004 (which is almost 10 years ago yikes!) and I don’t have a good excuse as to why I freeloaded. But I do feel much better now I have paid.
You can too! [tinypass_offer text=”Subscribe!”] Another:
OK Mr. Smarty-pants, so I finally paid out for a subscription after nearly a year of putting up with truncated articles. You win. The decider for me was that I’ve been reading your stuff now since 2003, love you/your team’s writing, and the price is actually a fraction of what I used to pay for hard-copy newspapers over a year (I stopped getting them years ago, except for the occasional copy of The Economist). Why did I hold out for so long? Well, I wasn’t sure your model was going to work, I don’t like paying for things I used to get for “free” (sidebar/inter-paragraph adverts don’t bother me), and because I’m a penny-pinching cheap-skate. Now don’t let me down.
We’ll do our very best.
Today: the racial and cultural context for Tea Party insurrection; why the far right cannot back down; why they believe enforcing the laws is tantamount to a felony; the shutdown office fuzzball star; and a torture apologist defends wrecking the global and American economy for partisan kicks.
Bros n bikinis! Strange encounters of the pro-choice kind!
The most popular post of the day was “The Nullification Party“, now the second most popular post since we went independent. The fourth remains Tina Fey’s “Girls” parody. Still laughing my hernia wound off.
See you in the morning.
(Photo: A woman with a vintage handbag gives out leaflets to delegates leaving Manchester Central where the Conservative Party are holding their annual conference on October 1, 2013 in Manchester, England. By Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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