Reason's first-ever webathon—our annual exercise of asking you, beloved readers/listeners/viewers, to support our work by gifting us even modest tax-deductible donations—was held back in September 2008. Yes, yes, a heck of a month, Brownie, and all that. But!
What I wish to convey—besides gratitude to each and every one of the 152 of you back then who contributed toward our whopping total of $13,000 ($18,000 in today's degraded money), let alone the hundreds of you who are giving us hundreds of thousands now—is how violently the journalism context in which we work has upheaved since then and how our comparative stability has been thanks in no small part to your ever-increasing generosity.
