There are so many emails in my mailbox from Free Republic posters disavowing the anti-gay emailer I posted that I cannot answer them all. But they seem to me to be a pretty good refutation of the guy’s position. It occurs to me that when a red-blooded conservative website can generate so many tolerant and open-minded responses, things are not too wrong with the world. I didn’t post the email to garner sympathy – I just thought it revealing after the other rant I had just read. I posted it for balance mainly. But I’m really taken aback by the generosity and support of other Freepers. Thanks. It confirms my suspicion that there are now more open minds on the right than the left.
HOME NEWS: A few things to report. We’re now well past $8,000 in donations, although they’ve slowed to a trickle. We’ve put the money into a redesign that should see the light of day by the end of the month. We’ll soon have a separate letters page; better copying and email options; and a book review section – an archive of every book review I’ve ever written, with recommendations. In a while, I want to start a book club. We’ll assign one book a month, and in the third week of the month, I’ll post my review, and post your responses and reviews as well. Whaddya think? Next week, we’re also becoming a kind of satellite site for Slate. Don’t worry. Bill Gates isn’t taking over. Slate is just going to post a small excerpt every day from the Dish and provide a link to as.com. Literally millions of Tim Noah fans are going to be storming the barricades soon. Or something like that. Slate gets to be more of a portal for web-stuff. We get more traffic. We stay completely independent. I don’t get a cent, but I thought it was a good deal. Salon already posts a link regularly, if they think there’s something worth reading. In other news, we had a sliver under 120,000 readers for March. That’s enough for serious advertising dollars. We’ll keep you posted. Meanwhile: THANKS for coming back so often.
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