Winter Fundraiser, Day Five

Yesterday $300 came in via PayPal and another $50 in the mail. Many of the contributions were in the $10 range, proving my point of yesterday that a bunch of people making small contributions together can have an immediate impact. The total of the fundraiser to date is $550, the goal is $2,000 by the end of next Friday, so it'd be great if a bunch more people got together and made contributions of $10, $15 or $25.

I'd really appreciate your help in getting this fundraiser to $1,000 by the end of the weekend. That means lots of you giving $10 and so on, but this site does have several thousand regular readers. I'd truly appreciate your help.

Where's that $2,000 going? you wonder. It'll help keep my butt alive and housed for the next three months and help me buy food for the cats, and supplement what I bring in from outside freelance work--which is never, ever enough and never, ever gets paid on time--and allow me to devote more time to the important issues before America, the UK and elsewhere concerning mental health.

One person who's backing off from mental health commentary for a couple of months is the New York Times' Judith Warner. In her column today, she announces that she's off on book leave for two months--must be nice-- and sick of writing and thinking about children and medication. Some of us out here were getting pretty tired of it, too. Her writing and thinking were so thin on these issues that I knew I was watching the new-beat-reporter-screwing-it-up-and-trying-to-intellectualize-her-way-out-of-trouble phenomenon. I've seen the phenomenon before and it's never pretty.

That's OK that Judy's gone for a while. There are plenty of other shills for Big Pharma in the land, and I will continue to be on them like white on rice, like hammer on anvil, like...well, you get the picture.

So please contribute what you can. Thanks for your support.