A real e-mail from the last 24 hours:

I finally bought my own subscription to NR. (Previously it had been a gift, but ran out a few months ago much to my dismay.) The final push? I showed up at Ashland University this weekend as a recent alumni…my former roommate and I were both wearing the NRO shirt with Cosmo on it. It was a sign from God that I should pay for the services somehow. Well, that or we’re both such Corner addicts, that we both knew all the same stories and are pathetic enough to put a blogger’s dog on our tshirts and think its cool. You decide. Thanks for all the good work…