And so this is Christmas.

Ok, not quite. But, man, I wish. Can’t miss typos when wrapping. And when you do the equivalent either people are too anxious to open the presents to notice the slip-ups, or by leaving the price tags on you get the full credit you might have secretly desired.

It’s Thursday of fund-drive week and I probably haven’t been annoying enough. So we’re not quite there yet.

So let me be a little annoying.

NRO is free. What do you get, say, on this week, for free? We’ve had a primer on conservatism, a Hollywood writer being real, a successful businessman trying to fix America’s schools. Speaking of schools, here’s a debunking of a new media myth. Here’s media vet Myrna Blyth on motherhood. Stanley Kurtz is analyzing Social Security plans here (and then there was Ramesh taking him on in Da Corner yesterday). It’s Larry Kudlow vs. Alan Greenspan here. We’re shedding light on some of China’s forgotten here. Byron York’s giving you some of the freshest stuff on the judge fight in the Senate here. A cop whose hands are being tied outs a criminal outrage here. We’ve got senators and book reviews.

Deroy Murdock is trying to save Ground Zero for posterity here. Carrie Lukas spares you from Glamour. Tomorrow you’ll get your weekly Victor Davis Hanson dose, among a wide array of offerings. And there’s a lot more. All outside The Corner (except for that one parenthetical I snuck in above). Also outside The Corner you’ve got Eric Pfeiffer watching D.C. Jim Geraghty seems to be all over Europe—literally. David Frum’s got his diary. And yes, that brings us to The Corner. 2008. Star Wars. John Bolton. Timewasters! Philosophies of life. Cars. The end of the world. The eternal questions. Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. Is there a topic we don’t touch?

And there’s more. And if you like it, you’ll only like it more in coming days and weeks and months. But I’ll stop there for now. What’s my point? My point is: Here at NRO we try to give you a good batch of reporting, analysis, commentary, culture and humor, hopefully with a smart, fresh style. I think we do. And many of you do, too, or you wouldn’t keep coming back as you do for more. So, what this week is about—without getting too annoying—is raising some dough to keep this thing going: with more authors, more features, more opportunities. We want you to stay and have rich choices to keep you here. We want to draw new people in. And we want to occasionally have the money to send some of our writers government-surplus cheese—the postage is a witch.

If you need more convincing, hear Ed Capano and Rich Lowry out here.

In short, please consider opening your wallet to NRO.