An Appeal!

We’ve arrived at LGM’s Fundraising Appeal! We try to limit this exercise to once a year, unless Loomis endures another financial catastrophe, including but not limited to spending his entire book advance on a bag of magic beans or some such bullshit.

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LGM is not a non-profit in the technical sense of the term, and none of our readers are under any obligation to toss a quarter into the tip jar. This site has survived, in no small part, because people continue to read, engage, and comment. That said, the writers (not to mention the owners!) don’t make anything approaching what they deserve for the amount of time they put into the site. Your donation will go in part to increasing the remuneration of the contributors, but will also go to the following tasks:

• Investigating and engineering a redesign that will improve speed and readability on both desktop on mobile
• Improving the LGM Store (and ditching Cafe Press)
• Paying guest authors, some of whom choose to donate their fees to worthy causes
• Increasing the reach of the site on social media and elsewhere
• Redoubling our efforts to work up a reliable, consistent podcast
• Acquiring additional pleated khakis for Loomis, and dad jeans for the rest of us.

We deeply appreciate any contribution that you could make. This blog has been around for a very long time, and if it weren’t (very mildly) profitable, I doubt we’d still be here, doing the things we do.

But don’t take my word for it:

• “Whatever else you can say about Lawyers, Guns and Money, it would never run references to vodka or Trent Richardson into the ground.”  Scott Lemieux, the Guardian
• “Lawyers, Guns, and Money is the internet’s leading site for dead horses.” Erik Loomis, University of Rhode Island
• “Here are the five most lethal ways in which LGM will rock your world.” — Robert Farley, The National Interest
• “As for collocations of Yankee cockersuckers bound by warped, unnatural impulses, they suffice” — Al Swearengen, proprietor, Gem Saloon
• “The blog that caused Derek Jeter to retire.”  — Scott Lemieux, The Week

@ohtarzie Oh, obviously – LGM is a cesspool of unprincipled partisan hackdom – look what they said about Palin’s crosshair “metaphor”

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 22, 2012

• “This site has the most labor-friendly aircraft carriers on the Internet” — Scott Eric Kaufman, Salon.com
• “Who is Freddie DeBoer?  Should I know this?” — Paul Campos, University of Colorado
• “Just buy my fucking book.  Yes, both of them.” Robert Farley, author of Grounded, and the Battleship Book.
• “witlessly incendiary.”  — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review Online
• “Much better since Dave Noon stopped posting.”  — Jewel

I’ll let our biggest fan have the last word:

What, do you guys have that little to do that you spend so many hours obsessing over my every move? Don’t you have families? Hobbies? You could write a fucking dissertation with all of the time and words you’ve wasted, trying to prove to the world that I’m irrelevant by following me around like TMZ. What kind of a pack of tweens gets so bizarrely fixated on somebody with no power over their lives whatsoever? It’s like your some pathetic guy relentlessly hitting “refresh” on his ex-girlfriend’s Instagram.