DOTE Needs Your Support

Despite the eternal quest of Americans to obtain it, there is no such thing as a Free Lunch. DOTE is not an exception to this rule. Today I am asking for your support.

Please consider sending a donation to help keep this website going. To make that task easier, I have gotten a post office post. Some readers have told me that they don't want to use PayPal, which is fine with me in so far as they take a 15% cut of every donation I receive there.

If you want to help out, please send your checks or money orders to—

Dave Cohen
P.O. Box 90257
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
15224

Please include a note and a way I can reach you. Or send me an e-mail at the address located on the lower right hand side of this DOTE homepage. This fundraiser will last through Friday of this week. I will post a short blurb which includes the mailing address at the top of each post until July 20.

I am not going to toot my own horn. I'm not going to tell you that DOTE is greatest thing since sliced bread

If you value posts like yesterday's Is Our Species Headed Toward Rapid Extinction?, then please consider supporting my work here.

It so happens that I recently revisited George Clooney's movie Good Night, And Good Luck. The film is about Ed Murrow's courageous stand against red-baiting, facist wanna-be Senator Joe McCarthy in the early 1950s. At the very end of Murrow's speech he says something which I thought was apropos.

Murrow (actor David Strathairn) was talking about television, which was in the early stages of becoming the weapon of mass destruction it is today. The remarks Murrow made in the 1950s also apply to the internet this year, or any other year for that matter.

This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it for those ends.

Otherwise, it is merely wires and lights in a box.

Thanks for your support.

Comments

[Diogenes]

Hi Dave,
It is my sincere hope (there's that word again - hopefully excused in this case) that everyone responds to your request.
Outside of those blogs & sites that are specific to my primary concern, yours is perhaps the most essential to my day - every day. Helps to maintain and expand my perspective(s). It's a matroyshka doll thing - like you said yesterday..."we have a consciousness problem".
You must keep swinging away.
Best...

[Bill]

Dave, I sent a few $ last week using Paypal - I had no Idea they took 15%. That makes American Express look good! I'll note you PO Box and use the snail-mail next time. Keep "kicking against the pricks..."

[Anywhere But Here Is Better]

Working on it Dave, trying to avoid the banks stealing a slice just because the English Pound is no longer welcome in Boston :-)

May your coffers be replenished by your many admirers.

[Mike Roberts]

Where is the information for Paypal donations? I can't see that anywhere. I'm in New Zealand and don't even have a cheque book, so sending something is a bit awkward, not that I can afford much. Paypal may be the only way.

[ZenAndTheArt]

@MIke Roberts
there is a "Donate" button top right hand of page - links to PayPal for us southern hemispherers

Dave - I enjoy your writing. Nice warm Feel, but penetrating. Bit like having a discussion with grandpa who is much wiser than all the young bulls charging around trying to show the world how effin good they are. Elephant stamp 4 ya (DownUnder sign of humble good work).