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Alexandria, VA 22320

The MULLINGS Subscription Drive
Is Under Way!

Only $25 Will Keep Mullings Strong and Independent!

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Ok. I'm back from Eye-Rack and I am restarting Mullings as the three-day-a-week political column it was before that adventure began.

This is a little complicated, so please put down the remote and pay attention.

I want - and need - people to subscribe to Mullings. BUT, if you are a current subscriber and were due to renew your subscription in February YOU CANNOT RENEW UNTIL AUGUST!

People who have never had a paid subscription, including friends and relatives, however, can as you will read below.

This is because of the deal I made with the Department of Defense to continue to publish Mullings as a non-political column while I worked for the DoD in Baghdad. If I were writing a column about gardening, or garage door repair during the time I was in Iraq, I could have charged for it, have had advertisers on it, and done all the other little things necessary to have kept this a going concern.

However, the US Government has a pretty simple rule: Thou shalt not make outside money by speaking or writing about that which the government is already paying you to do.

As the government was paying me to be in Iraq; I was permitted to write about it, but not permitted to charge for it.

OK, here's the complicated part: I was in Iraq for six months, so I have to extend your subscription by six months, otherwise I would have been, in effect, being paid to write about that which the government was paying me to do.

Dear Mr. Mullings.
Are you serious about this? Don't you really want us to renew right now, anyway?
signed,
The Folks Who Have 25 Bucks Just Burning a Hole in Their Credit Cards

No. I really don't want you to do that. I will pester you in August - September, probably - for your renewal. Remember, Mullings subscriptions have not renewed automatically (although you now have the ability to do so), so when I begin to whine and moan that it's your turn, you will have to click on the link and fill in the form.

So, can anyone subscribe now?

In the words of the sainted Curly Howard, "Certainly!"

If you have never subscribed; or if your subscription lapsed prior to last November, then you can go HERE and fill out the subscription form.

That goes, by the way, for others in your orbit (like your sainted mom or your cheap brother-in-law) who have been glomming onto your copy of Mullings for years but who might, now, wish to have their very own subscription.

Mullings is a real business. It requires paid subscriptions and advertising to continue. Mullings is not a subsidiary of a large corporation. It is, as I have mentioned before, the basic building block of the American economy: A small business run by one person.

That person happens to be me, and I happen to love doing it.

Nevertheless, like any business it requires revenue and a significant portion of the annual revenue necessary comes from Mullings readers who choose to pay $25 to keep the column going.

Unlike National Public Radio to which you can listen whether you pay or not, Mullings receives no income from the public coffers.

It is all up to you.

Please subscribe today.

For those who became aquainted with Mullings during the Iraq Adventure and so have not seen the regular Mullings, you should be aware that it is generally a pointedly political column; a pointedly Conservative political column. I try not to be mean, but neither to I attempt to be even-handed. I think Liberalism is wrong-headed and I am perfectly happy to point out the faults and blunders of our friends on the Left - as they are eager to point our what they consider to be our shortcomings.

The secret to understanding my approach is this: I consider the Left to be political opponents; not enemies.

The columns generally run about 700 words (as opposed to the 2,000 words of the Iraq Travelogues) and do not generally contain pictures as part of the column.

Mullings comes to your mailbox as a complete column every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Each of those columns is accompanied by a "Secret Decoder Ring" page (SDR) which does contain photos, additional links, explanations of obscure references and other things which I find amusing, aggravating or both. There is a link on the Mullings page which takes you to the SDR but you can read the column without going there.

In addition to the three-days-a-week Mullings column there are irregular Travelogues - not unlike the Iraq Travelogues except they generally don't include stories of people who are actively trying to kill me. At least no one that I'm not aware of.

The Travelogues are included in the subscription price. AND there's every reason to believe that Ranger Rick will make an occasional guest appearance!

In a normal year - a normal year being defined as one during which I spend exactly zero days in Iraq or any other war zone - each edition of Mullings costs about a dime.

When you consider the amount of material I provide you to beat that Liberal jerk with whom you have to share an office over the head with, it is a terrific bargain.

So, if you have never subscribed (or you wish to subscribe on behalf of someone who has never done so) please consider helping to get Mullings restarted.

If you are uncomfortable about using your credit card on line, you can subscribe using a check and sending it to:

Mullings
PO Box 19057
Alexandria, VA 22320

Thank you and be safe,
Rich