It is
Day Two of Reason’s annual week-long Webathon, which means
PLEASE MONEY US RIGHT
NOW, PEOPLE WHO ARE READING THIS FOR FREE ALL THE
TIME!
It also means we have a next eligible non-bachelor up on
our senior
staffer Webathon auction block: Science Correspondent Ronald
Bailey. He
loves robots! And hypothetical
digital babies (though his feelings on actual babies are less
enthusiastic.) Ann
Coulter wants
to drown him! What more do you need to know?
Would you be more willing to help us meet
our Webathon goal of raising $200,000 this week if we told
you that we were going to spend the money on a new hovercraft for
Ron? (We’re not.) (We might.)
Ron has literally given everything he has
to Reason since joining the mothership back in
1997. Why, he
once shared his entire genome with the Internet, as part of a
brilliant defense of trusting individuals with their own genetic
information.
Bailey reads academic journals for fun, which is kind of kinky,
and then translates them into English so that the rest of us can
enjoy learning stuff like “Both
Gay and Heterosexual Marriages Are Equally Stable,” “Immigrants
Are Less Criminal Than Native-Born Americans,” and “Famine
No More: The World of Plenty Lies Ahead.”
And who among us does not feel his heart swell with joy when
it’s time for the monthly “Global
Temperature Trend Update“?
Bailey is the only Reason staffer worth fully
trusting to
greet our new robot overlords. I mean, think about it.
And stay tuned for Ron’s forthcoming book, The End of
Doom, which will drop even more good-news bombs on grumpy
civilians, causing some seriously great collateral damage for
capitalism. DON’T OVERTHINK THE METAPHOR, DONATE TODAY.
In conclusion: Mo’ money, mo’
Bitcoin, mo’ Bailey.
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