Wednesday Smiles

David Strom 10:00 AM | April 03, 2024
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As more than a few of you noticed (and rightfully so), there were no Sunday Smiles published this week. 

Given that the post by its nature contains a lot of cynical humor it didn't seem appropriate for Easter Sunday, so we decided to wait until midweek. Some of you were so disappointed that a nearly two-year-old version of SS made it to the top of the charts on Monday. Thanks! 

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You might not guess it, but Sunday Smiles is by a long way my most time-consuming post to publish, and is actually pretty resource intensive for Hot Air, as it takes a lot of bandwidth--which actually costs money. Aside from video content the cost/click ratio is actually pretty high compared to mostly text posts. 

But you love them and so do I. I even use a decent chunk of one of my days off to produce them for those reasons. 

Which brings me to my pitch: you keep coming back to Hot Air and all the Townhall properties because you find what we do valuable. I don't know precisely how many times any of our pieces are read--I am not a tech geek here--but I know that for my own the total is over a million times a month. 

In that month I write, approximately, 115,000 words. To put that in perspective, a typical novel is 80,000 words long according to Publishing Talk. 

Of course a good novelist and an opinion writer aren't comparable, and I am no Dostoyevsky. But you get the point. It is a lot of writing, and of course that requires a lot MORE reading than writing to do my job. I have no idea what the ratio is, but I am reading and digesting a lot of information all the time. 

Add up all the people here and across the Townhall properties and you have a vast enterprise dedicated to keeping you informed. 

That's worth a lot to you. I know it is because you are here. 

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That's why I am perfectly comfortable asking you to subscribe to Hot Air's VIP program. Actually, you should subscribe to the VIP Gold program, because it is a wildly better deal, since you get VIP access to everything. 

Not only do you get all the VIP perks--the columns behind the paywall and the shows are worth it--but you also get something much more valuable: keeping us in business. 

We are a small fish in a very big ocean. Big Tech and the MSM command trillions of dollars in resources, and they want us gone. Dead. Kaput. Silenced. 

You keep us going by coming here, and most significantly by signing up for VIP access. VIP members are the people who pay the bills, and we are immensely grateful to you. 

Join us in the fight. Become a HotAir VIP member today and use promo code SAVEAMERICA to receive a huge discount on your membership.

For those of you who are VIP members already, THANK YOU! Without your support, we couldn't continue to bring you the honest, alternative analysis that you have come to expect. 

I know it must be tiresome to get these pitches regularly, but it is how we stay in business. And, just to be clear, I put my own money where my mouth is. I spend an ungodly amount of money on subscriptions to independent journalists and the best news sources out there because it is worth it to me. 

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