A Friend In Need
My fellow denizen of the Fashionable Left Bank of Blogistan, Susie Madrak the Suburban Guerrilla, is experiencing some severe financial, health, and stress issues, as well as three surgeries in the upcoming months. She’s hanging on with COBRA for a few months and hoping to get things patched up enough to function in a relatively normal manner.
But she needs your help.
She has an Amazon donation button that limits individual donations to $50 a day*. But I think it would be an interesting and potentially joy-inducing experiment to see, say, ten of us contributing as a group effort. Just tell her that The American Street came and did some street theater and convinced you that you would be happy to take your cash and give it away to the suburban guerrilla.
Or tell her thanks for lots and lots of bloggy goodness, good writing, wondrous video linkage, and other sundry contributions she has made to the general welfare by being a Basic Force For Good In Our Time for quite a few years now.
Or just stop for a minute, take your hookers and blow money** for the day/week/month, and donate it to Susie. You can probably get twice as much hookers and blow for half as much money in another month anyway, if deflationary trends continue during the wondrous econonomic fantastitude of the Putsch strategery combined with an unstoppable six years of total control of all phases of Republican’t governamentering to start the millennium***.
Please - think about helping a fellow traveler get through a rough patch on her life’s journey.
* - donation collection critique will be duly noted and filed in the circular file collection facility after passing through our rigorous shredding evaluation device directly above it. Thank you!
** - with all due homage to our favorite Tequila Treehouse for (hopefully) taking away (some of) his excess donations for the next little while…
*** - and the added benefit of two more years of petulant vetoing, shifty back-door appointmentering, and blustering Republican’t partisan politics from the Illegally Installed Drunken Cokeheaded Deserter combined with (for the most part) sackless enabling by the Democratic congress of the Petulant One’s every whim.
Editors’ Note: this entry has been (more or less) cross-posted at the Funny Farm]
August 1st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
[…] I’m not crazy about asking for help. (In fact, I’m downright phobic about it.) But thanks to bloggers like Digby, Glenn Greenwald, John Amato, John Cole, Jill Cozzi, Jonathan Schwarz, World O’Crap, Avedon, funnyfarmer at American Street and everyone else who picked up my original post, I now have the luxury of knowing I have health insurance for several months, despite my recent un-employment. (Unlike so many other people in the same boat.) […]