PATRICK RUFFINI and W.C. Varones are unhappy with a couple of my blogads.

UPDATE: Reader Patrick Songsanand emails: “As a regular reader of your blog, I must say i agree with your critics about accepting blogads from the UN or its related agencies.” Well, they’re not criticizing me for taking the ads, they’re criticizing the ads.

But I have a very broad ad-acceptance policy, for two reasons. (1) The money does more good in my hands than in the U.N. Foundation’s or George Soros’s; and (2) If I only took ads from people I agreed with, soon critics would say that my opinions were following the ads, rather than the other way around.

The Spirit of America ad, though, is a freebie.