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No, Not 40 Percent, Mark, 60 Percent!

William F. Buckley Jr. on Firing Line, April 22, 1980 (Screenshot via YouTube)

I don’t know about you, but I got awfully sick of seeing Mark Wright’s pinned post in here for days about us being 40 percent toward our fundraising goal, when we had surpassed 40 percent, and indeed we are now over 60 percent. I don’t know why Mark had trouble keeping up. It could be that he was still recovering from his celebration of the Sooners championship — in college softball. Indeed, despite playing 61 games, Sooners softball only lost one more game than Sooners football, and didn’t have its coach unceremoniously decamp for USC. Or it could be that he was stupefied in fear at the prospect of U.Va. also coming into the SEC.

All that aside, 40 percent is in the rearview mirror. If you helped put it there, thanks so much. If not, we’d really appreciate it if you could chip in any amount from $5 to $5,000. We have a very generous match up to $100,000, and it’s important to us to take full advantage of it. Thanks so much.

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