Sponsors | Two new gifts just in: from Kentucky

One reader in that state has given me $25, and a second one has just donated $10. (Note: I was a reporter at The Courier-Journal in Louisville from 1996 until early 2000, when I moved to USA Today's San Francisco bureau.) With that contribution, I've now reached 37% of my quarterly goal. The breakdown:

• Reader donations: $496
• Advertising: $972

I'm trying to earn $4,000 quarterly, through donations of $5 per reader, plus advertising sales. Please use the PayPal "Donate" tool in the green rail, upper right. Or mail cash and checks payable to: Jim Hopkins, 584 Castro St. #823, San Francisco, Calif., 94114-2594.