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Fundraising has gone well, with $160 in monthly subscriptions, and $4,490.  Tripling the subscriptions, the total is $4,970, meaning we’re $1,030 from the second tier – two significant articles a week, and an average of an article every weekday.

Everyone who has given: thank you.  If you haven’t given, and like my writing, please consider DONATING or SUBSCRIBING.

Anyone who gives $500, can also talk to me about my writing an article on a subject of interest to them.

(The original article on the campaign is here.)

The campaign will end this coming Monday.

Collective action.

Nothing.

It is for this reason that unions were obsessed with solidarity; it is for this reason that Marxists obsessed over class consciousness.

More on this another day.

You can listen to me here.

I hope my readers had a good holiday season, and that your 2014 is better than 2013 was for you.  Unless you were heavily invested in the stock market, or German, 2013 was a generally lousy year for most people in the Western world.

In the new year I’ll be making some decisions about how much, and what, to blog in 2014.  The last few months of 2013 saw some major pieces on ideology, global warming and the history of our devolution to the semi-permanent crisis we’re in and the response to those articles was excellent, but they are a great deal of work.

On a personal level, 2013 was mostly about improving my health, and it’s quite a bit better than it was this time last year, so I’m grateful for that.

Take care of yourselves, and may the Fates be kind.

me, I’m eating duck, so Christmas is good.

A number of people have asked for an update on Stirling Newberry.

He’s doing somewhat better, he still has significant aphasia (difficulty finding words) and difficulty controlling his right and left arms.  His personality is definitely intact, and he will most likely moving out of the institution in the next month or so.  He should, with difficulty, be able to care for himself.

One can never say how well someone will recover from a stroke, but I am modestly optimistic that he will make a good recovery.

(One interesting side-note, the aphasia does not effect him when speaking Spanish.)

If you have any acquaintance with Stirling and want to get in touch with him, drop me a note.

You can listen in here either during or after.

Conversation will most likely center on these three posts:

Baseline Predictions for the next sixty years

A New Ideology

How to Create a Viable Ideology

And, I suspect, on my comments on why the progressive blog movement failed.