Breaking news: Kramer and DragonCon have gotten a divorce. http://t.co/GGw2BtgEfR
-- Deirdre Saoirse Moen deir...@deirdre.net On Sun, Jul 7, 2013, at 09:41 AM, Tom Becker wrote: > At 12:26 AM -0700 7/7/13, David Speakman wrote: > > > >As for the volunteers: The libertarian in me says that if volunteers > >are willing to work for free membership and T-Shirt - then there is > >no harm since they willingly do it. But the dyed-in-the-wool > >pro-union liberal in me yells at the libertarian side of me to shut > >up and says shame on me being an uncaring creep. (The conservative > >side of me was exiled in a bloodless coup three decades ago and has > >not been heard from since.) > > Kudos to your sides for getting along as well as they do, including > the conservative side. A real conservative understands the value of > not messing with something that's working. > > As for the volunteers, I'm writing this from Westercon where we > volunteers paid for our memberships and don't even get a free > T-shirt. But we're not being exploited; it's just a shoestring > operation that we are doing for the enjoyment of our fellow fen, and > because we're basically nuts. > > Tom > > -- > Tom Becker <t...@fanac.com> > Potlatch n. A science fiction convention where readers and > writers meet on common ground. http://potlatch-sf.org > _______________________________________________ > Basfa mailing list > Basfa@lists.basfa.org > http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list Basfa@lists.basfa.org http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
