This won’t cost you a dime, but could actually allow me to blog for another year without having to worry about my mortgage. Just the very idea of that makes me giddy like a schoolgirl — err, like a — oh, never-mind. It just makes me giddy, damnit!
At the same time, clicking the following orange button doesn’t just give you the opportunity to help me reach financial Nirvana for a year, but it can also help promote my work at the Anvil to more new readers:
Whenever you see that button on the Anvil, clicking it will bring you to my Blog for a Year profile and you may then enter a vote for me if you deem me worthy. You can do this once each and every day, so feel free to be drawn to that orange like a moth when you see it! 
From Blog for a Year:
The Blog for a Year competition is an experiment in social sponsorship. What would happen if patrons from all over the world could come together to give one deserving writer the boost he or she needs to launch a professional career as a blogger? That’s what we aim to find out.
Blog for a Year awards one winner a year-long contract to blog full time on a blog of his or her own choosing. The award is funded by donations from participants and sponsors. Even if you don’t win, it’s a great way to have your blog discovered by thousands of other people who may not normally find it.
Getting a blog to the point it can support you takes a lot of hard work, especially if you have to keep a day job to pay the bills in the mean time. I started the Blog of a Year competition to give one blogger who would like to make blogging his or her full time job a chance to make it happen.
How does it work?
The rules are simple: anyone who would like can enter the competition. All you need to do is create a profile on this site, donate to the Blogger Fund, and start collecting votes for your profile. The competition will end when the Blogger Fund reaches $160,000 or Jan 1, 2008, whichever comes first. In either case, when the competition ends, the person will the most votes will be offered the job.
What will the winner receive? Can I work on any blog I want?
The winning blogger will be offered a contract to work on his or her own blog full time for one year. The blogger will be paid $80,000 in even bi-weekly installments, just like a regular paycheck.
This competition is for you to work on your blog, not mine. You can blog about any topic you want. In fact, when you sign up, you are asked to link to the blog you want to promote.
You can read more details about and rules for the competition.
You may also nominate other bloggers or even join yourself. If nothing else, this is another way to help promote the cause of anti-jihad bloggers like myself. That’s a win-win situation for everyone.
Thanks, good luck and may the best blogger win!
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Done for today
Big thanks to those two dozen that have voted for me already since I posted this.