JUST SENT OUT THANK-YOU EMAILS to the folks who hit the tipjar. (They’re real, typed by my own hands, not auto-generated form notes, as I was raised to respond appropriately to gifts.) There were some old ones in the queue that I thought I had responded to, but I went ahead and responded anyway. If my reply was late — er, or duplicative — I’m sorry about that. I very much appreciate the donations, which offset the hatemail rather nicely. . . .

UPDATE: A reader emails: “You should raise your maximum contribution limit — some of your fans are partners in big law firms!” Well, Amazon has a fifty-buck limit, which is still more than I deserve. But there’s always PayPal, you know.