Today, Monday, is the LAST DAY of this brief fundraiser. Please donate now. Your support is very much valued.
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My next and — hallelujah — final bowel-jiggering surgery will take place in early October, which coincides with the second of my biannual solicitations for reader support. So, since I won't be present for a few days in the first week of next month, I'm choosing to throw caution to my usual tsunami of poor decision-making and stage a four-day finance campaign now.
I appreciate and completely understand that, because of several preceding surgeries, I've been absent now and then throughout the past few months and therefore you might be inclined to pass on contributing this time around. So not to worry. I'll take my blows in the service of gastrointestinal necessities. I prefer pooping over adding to a bank account, the latter of which is rather worthless if one is lethally puffing out, from the bottom up, like a blowfish.
Don't mistake. I'm certainly not encouraging you to pass on clicking the "Donate" button to the right; I very much hope, of course, that donate you will. I also, however, recognize and accept that this autumn's campaign is unique in its complications.
All that said, if you're a regular reader and either enjoy my commentaries or enjoy disagreeing with my commentaries, just click on said "Donate" button and be done with it. Your generosity will be most valued, I assure you.
Yours,
—PM
(Again, fresh posts below.)