{"id":219,"date":"2011-09-23T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/09\/day-5-of-the-tin-cup-rattle\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T18:54:00","slug":"day-5-of-the-tin-cup-rattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/09\/day-5-of-the-tin-cup-rattle.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 of the Tin Cup Rattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>As your Dark Lord, I have to tell you that running Pits of Despair and spinning world-spanning webs of evil and intrigue is not as easy as it sounds.  Besides the distracting screams of anguish, the food bill for the wolves who prowl the dark forests around my impregnable mountain fastness, and the repair bills for the Orbital Mind Control Laser Platform in Geosynchronous Orbit Above North America, there is also the daily pressure of paying the mutants, mind-numbed sycophants, and drooling half-human beasts spawned by my perverted science.  And that Golden Submarine I use for piracy and battling giant squids doesn\u2019t fuel itself either!<\/p>\n<p>Please, if you appreciate the thin gruel I dish out here, then help keep the Giant Red Eye of Evil burning atop my gleaming obsidian tower by clicking on the PayPal button to the left so that CAEI can stay on the air  and our kids get fed. You can either make a straight donation or, if you like to  get something for your money (something beyond this blog that you\u2019ve come to  love and depend on, I mean), you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mark-shea.com\/books.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #70aa55\">buy my books, CDs, and DVDs<\/span><\/a>. And  if you\u2019d rather not do the PayPal thang, feel free to <a href=\"mailto:chez.ami@frontier.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #70aa55\">email me <\/span><\/a>and ask for my snailmail  address. I\u2019ll happily take a check instead. <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t think somebody else  will do it. Today\u2019s your day to say, \u201cWhere else can I find a blog that gives me stories about <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/catholicnewsagency\/dailynews\/~3\/M9k3RYXy7RA\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Pope\u2019s address to the German Parliament<\/a> (without the standard eyerolling and contempt the MSM heaps on him), plus discussions of Star Trek, harvestable Welshmen, physics breakthroughs, the death penalty, magnetic children and all the other stuff that makes this blog so fun for so long.<\/p>\n<p>Please help us out as best you can.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As your Dark Lord, I have to tell you that running Pits of Despair and spinning world-spanning webs of evil and intrigue is not as easy as it sounds. 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